Brussels

Brussels tells the story of the collision of the powerful and powerless against a backdrop of a city that pulsates with tension. Moniek and Viktor make every effort to reach their goals, whether legally or illegally, with cash or with charm, with fraud or even murder.

Moniek van Dalen (Johanna ter Steege, The Vanishing, Vincent & Theo), is a member of the board of Transworld Oil, who needs the support of EU Commissioners for a new project in Brussels. Viktor Petrenko (Alexander Lazarev), a Ukrainian billionaire, who also happens to be her former lover, is working on a different project and succeeds in scuppering Moniek’s project.

During their affair, Moniek fell pregnant to Viktor, and after much soul-searching, decided to keep the child. Moniek’s husband knew nothing about her secret; that is until their daughter, Nadja, was diagnosed with childhood leukaemia at the age of fourteen. The search for a bone marrow donor revealed that her father was not her natural father.

Nadja is now twenty-five and has been given the all clear. Her parents have since divorced and she is still unaware that Viktor is her biological father. Meanwhile, after reuniting, Moniek and Viktor start another extremely secret affair.

One day, when a plane carrying Nadja’s fiancé Pjotr disappears over the Pacific on its way to an environmental conference, Nadja becomes caught up in distressing conspiracy theories about Viktor. Viktor was also due to attend the event as a sponsor, and Nadja is convinced that a number of his enemies were on-board.

Brussels is written by renowned Dutch writer Leon de Winter and directed by Arno Dierickx (Russen, Overspel).