Chalk Outline: Imagined by Anton, when he comes back to the spot of his former home seven years later, and visualizes where Ploeg's body fell.Near the end Anton sees two different vans labeled 'FAKE PLOEG' pull up in front of a street it seems his old classmate has a thriving plumbing business. A bitter, angry Fake Ploeg rants about how people like Anton got to go to medical school, while the stigma of being a collaborator's son forced him to drop out of school, and he's stuck working as a plumber.Forty years later, as Anton is about to go to the dentist, his wife tells him the same thing. Right before their life is destroyed, Anton's mom puts a clove in her mouth to relieve the pain from a toothache.Anton meets his first wife while seeing the Stone of Scone in London. When Fake (pronounced 'Fah-kay') Ploeg stumbles into Anton's apartment building he's carrying a brick (it's in the middle of a riot in the street). The various moments of coincidence and chance in the film are always associated with stones. Bilingual Bonus: The Dutch word for 'dice' actually translates directly into English as 'dicing stone' ( dobbelsteen).Decades roll by, forty years as Anton ages from a pre-teen into a prosperous man in his early 50s.but still he is haunted by the past and the memory of the night his family was destroyed. The Cold War unfolds as Anton gets married, has a daughter, gets divorced, gets married again and has a son.

Years pass by as Anton goes to medical school and becomes an anesthesiologist. Anton goes to school and grows to adulthood (adult Anton is played by Derek de Lint). Anton is arrested but in an uncharacteristic show of mercy, the Germans release him into the custody of his uncle. Left alone is 12-year-old Anton, the younger son. Older son Peter Steenwijk disappears he is later revealed to have been shot minutes later in the neighbors' house. Steenwijk are arrested and never seen again they were taken and shot by the Germans as reprisals.

In fact Ploeg is killed in front of their neighbors' house, but the neighbors drag the corpse over in front of the Steenwijk house. The placid family life of the Steenwijk family is destroyed in an instant when a Dutch Nazi collaborator, Ploeg, is shot down in the street. Holland, still occupied by the Germans, is suffering through the ' Hunger Winter ' in the closing days of World War II.

The film opens in January 1945, in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The Assault ( De aanslag) is a 1986 film from The Netherlands, directed by Fons Rademakers and based on the novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch.

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