Mothers

Clarity above all. That is the starting point of Farah and Roué Verveer, parents of Randy. You speak with two words, you do your homework according to a strict plan and you spend puberty in your room. Who is stricter in upbringing, his father or his mother? “My mother,” Randy laughs. Sophie Zeestraten's mother left the family when Sophie was five years old. Why she did that remained a mystery to Sophie for a long time. Coen Verbraak also talks to Teuntje Klinkenberg, who lost her mother to breast cancer at a young age, and to Lien Hussein, who fled the war in Syria with her parents.

Susan and her daughter Lien have a very strong bond. This cannot be separated from the painful divorce of Susan and her Syrian husband.

Minister Carola Schouten raised her son Thomas largely alone. The feared breast cancer gene runs like a common thread through the life of Teuntje Klinkenberg. Businesswoman Marguerite Soeteman was away a lot, so her daughter Isabelle saw her less than her mother's friends.

Coen Verbraak talks to Truus Severs and her daughter Marije, who became parents with two gay men. Coen also speaks again with Thomas and his mother, minister Carola Schouten.

Lonne and Machteld are together mothers of two beautiful daughters. Then Machteld becomes seriously ill. Irene unintentionally becomes pregnant at the age of sixteen. She is forced to give up her child. More than fifty years later, she still struggles with that.