| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
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Rien and Hans are best friends who are aspiring motocross racers who hope to go pro one day. Their best friend is Eef, their mechanic. After a welcome home to national champion Gerrit Witkamp, the boys join Rien's girlfriend Maya, Truus, and Annette at a local disco, where Eef shows off his disco moves and Hans gets ridiculed after unsuccessfully seducing a woman. As they leave, Eef sees a gay man and decides to beat him up with the help of Hans and Rien. The six head to an abandoned building where Hans and Annette do nothing, Truus and Eef fake orgasm noises due to Eef's temporary impotence, and Rien and Maya have sex.
A few days pass and Rien, hailed as a hometown hero, enters a motocross race with Hans. There, a local biker gang member begins to act like a jerk towards the new food truck and its French fry slinger, Fientje. Jaap, Fientje's brother, stands up to the biker, who proceeds to leave. Rien, Hans, and Eef all see Fientje and instantly become attracted to her. When Rien has an argument with Maya, he ends up having a tryst with Fientje. However, when Hans and Rien go for a leisurely ride one day, the driver of a nearby car tosses a bag of oranges out of the window. The bag hits Rien, who loses control and goes off the road, hitting his back on a stump, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Fientje sees a now disabled Rien and realizes that since his career is over, she has no use for him. Despite going through physical therapy, Rien ends up heartbroken and depressed. Even his return home to the locals welcoming home doesn't seem to help. Meanwhile, Fientje attempts to seduce Eef, but to no avail. Eef's habit of following gay men, watching them, and then beating them up catches up to him one night when Jaap and a group of men sexually assault him in an abandoned train station. Jaap apologizes but tells Eef he should be able to come to terms with the truth. Eef ends up having a relationship with Jaap and comes out to his religious father, resulting in his disownment.
Fientje and Hans have sex in the back of the food truck one day and she realizes Hans could be her ticket to start a new life. When Hans has a chance to ride with Gerrit Witkamp, he gets too confident and begins to make blunders. This leads to Witkamp and TV reporter Franz Henkhof to make a video just of Hans' errors as a racer. The video is shown that night at the bar run by Rien's father. Meanwhile, Rien, totally depressed, decides to roll towards the highway and stops in front of a moving truck, which fatally hits him. Hans' embarrassing video leads to an all-out brawl that results in the bar being completely destroyed. As the police investigate the brawl, Rien's father gets the devastating news of his son and is heartbroken.
Hans and Fientje go to the destroyed bar a few days later and Hans tells Fientje that with money he had saved up, Rien's father has sold him the bar. Hans has the idea to create a new local bar and restaurant. Fientje accepts and ends up in a relationship with Hans. Jaap decides to leave town and offers Eef a chance to go with him. Eef sees his father, who is still ignoring him, and politely decline Jaap's offer with the hopes to reconcile with his dad someday. As Jaap sees Fientje and Hans work on their new business, he gives his sister the "thumbs up". As Jaap heads towards the highway, Maya is seen heading to a bus to go to work.