Quicksand

For all Frits a farmers son knows his mother died when giving birth to him He and his father make up a strong team In the literal and figurative sense because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt he is also the coach of his soccer team The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent Suddenly Fritss future is no longer with his father on the farm but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC His sons splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmers hard work but he is afraid he will also lose his only child Desperate he reveals the lie with which he raised his son Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision