Steal Fire

Well-known television personality Hugo Maris is standing on the terrace of the Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam, smoking a cigarette. In a tour boat that is passing by at that moment is his old friend Bob Moreno, who has returned to the city after an absence of many years. When he sees Hugo standing there, a plan starts to form in his head, an old plan that he had wanted to carry out in the early nineties. Back then, Hugo had put a spoke in the wheel. Bob does not hold a grudge, but this time he will not let anything or anyone stop him.

Sometimes we don't need war to be a victim. In Stealing Fire, Willem van Zadelhoff takes us into the world of theatre. We meet a democratised drama school in the late seventies, a follower of Bertolt Brecht with a red clown nose, girls from the provinces who cycle through Amsterdam in soldier's jackets, dreamy boys who think they can float ... and men in their fifties who understand that looking back is no longer useful.

Stealing Fire is a tragicomic tale of hope and continuing on the path you have chosen against your better judgment.