A shy student falls in love with a girl from another class. After he works up the courage to ask her to the school dance, something unexpected happens. The film, shot by Verhoeven at the same school he attended in The Hague, is loosely based on the description of the unrequited love of Anton Wachter in Simon Vestdijk’s novel Back to Ina Damman, one of the parts in the Anton Wachter cycle.