Poignant drama against the background of the childcare benefits scandal. The Turkish-Dutch Meral threatens to lose everything and has to make radical choices to save her family from the claws of the authorities.
The Turkish-Dutch Meral (Dilan Yurdakul) tries to keep afloat with her two young daughters in Almere when the tax authorities unjustly demand an enormous repayment of €34,000 in child benefits. While she is being afflicted by stress and debts, social detective Ron (Gijs Naber) infiltrates into her life. Meral threatens to lose everything. She has to make radical choices to save her family from the institutional clutches. But it is Ron who determines her fate. Poignant and shocking drama, based on true events around the childcare benefits scandal.
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