The relationship of four old college friends in trouble is renewed when they get dependent on each other. Pieter doesn't want to give back eight valuable paintings he took from the art depot of the municipality for each year as a birthday present. To help him he requests the help from Tom once a lawyer but now a drug addict. Politician Joep quarrelling with his wife and in the race for becoming a member of the Dutch cabinet is hiding at Pieter's place. Joep's daughter is actress in a play of stage director Maarten. Secretly Maarten is having sex with her and he is looking for an opportunity to tell. For some time the friendship of the four is revived but are they willing to go through fire and water for one another?