Ricky Koole

Sonny Boy is the adaptation of the bestselling novel by Annejet van der Zijl. Rika, a typical Dutch mother of four children, and Waldemar, a Surinam man seventeen years her junior. Their love can survive all the presumptions and obstructions of the cruel world outside but is finally unable to cope with the brutal and devastating power of war.

Misfortune strikes an artist, a schoolgirl, a maid, a train conductor, and a business executive when an ill-fated summer dress comes into their lives.

Young Abu disappears suddenly together with at least ten other children after a nightly and violent raid of his village by the rebel army. His best friend Thomas cannot be consoled. He wants Abu back, and Eduard, his father, decides to try to find Abu. In fighting to save his son's friend, Eduard discovers the brutal kidnapper is someone from his past.

The mad Professor Lupardi has developed a machine with which he can control the earth's climate and thus even destroy the world.