Plagwijk is a small border town that constantly feels threatened by its survival.
Greet Assies, scion of the old local elite, and Daan Ensing, who grew up in the city, expose the true nature and origin of that fear, with the help of Dieudonné de Belfort and her special gifts.
This has irreversible consequences for the oppressive relationships, entrenched traditions and fragile cohesion within the Plagwijk community.
In their unrelenting and unconditional love, Greet and Daan challenge each other, the truth, but also fate.
'I would like to describe the leitmotif that permeates Plagwijk's story from the first to the last sentence as follows: actions cause echoes in time,' says author Robert Beernink in conversation with publisher Inanna van den Berg and literary agent Dorine Holman. 'Observing people and their behavior through a magnifying glass is like looking into a confrontational distorting mirror.'
Robert Beernink:
Robert (1958) ) – author of small big stories – writes novels, italics and light verse. Although firmly rooted in the region, his view is global. Based on the observation that people's behavior, regardless of the level they reach and the situations they find themselves in, shows more similarities than differences, he reduces major themes to a micro scale and exposes how the individual tries to survive in the crowd.
