剧情介绍
故事发生在二十世纪初期的荷兰鹿特丹，德高望重的德莱文哈文（简·德克莱尔 Jan Decleir 饰）死于非命，一位名叫雅各布（费德贾·范·胡艾特 Fedja van Huêt 饰）的年轻律师遭到了逮捕，尽管证据确凿，但雅各布依然坚称自己的清白无辜，让大家感到惊讶的是，经过调查，德莱文哈文和雅各布看似毫无瓜葛，但却是血脉相连的父子。 原来，雅各布是德莱文哈文的私生子，当年，冷酷无情的德莱文哈文抛弃了身怀六甲的约芭（Betty Schuurman 饰），后者正是雅各布的生母。长大后的雅各布诸事不顺，面临着破产的命运，之后，雅各布立志成为一名律师，但却处处受阻，而这一切的始作俑者不是别人，正是他的亲生父亲。In the 20's, in Netherlands, Jacob Willem Katadreuffe has just concluded the law school and has an argument with the High Court Enforcement Officer Dreverhaven at his office. Katadreuffe leaves the place covered in blood. On the next morning, he is arrested by the police for the murder of Dreverhaven. He claims that he is innocent and discloses the story of his life to the Chief of Police. His mother Joba was the maid at Dreverhaven. One night, she is raped by him and a couple of weeks later she learns that she is pregnant. Dreverhaven proposes to marry her but Joba quits her job and leaves his house. Along the years, Katadreuffe is bullied at school and called bastard by his mates and his mother never talks to him. One day, he is involved by other kids in a theft of bread and arrested by the police. When he calls his biological father to help him, Dreverhaven tells the police that he does not know who Katadreuffe is. The boy is intelligent and learns English reading a superseded and incomplete edition of encyclopedia that was left behind by the previous tenants of his apartment. Katadreuffe is also ambitious and asks for a job in a law office, where he becomes the protégé of his mentor De Gankelaar. Soon he falls in unrequited love with the secretary Lorna Te George Victor. Along the years, Dreverhaven uses his power to harm him. When he concluded his course, he decides to pay a visit to Dreverhaven to tell him that he has wined their dispute. May Katadreuffe have killed Dreverhaven?