Sea of Time

Years ago a young couple set out to cross the ocean in their boat. The voyage ended in a great loss and the two of them never came together again. Now the woman wants to turn that voyage into a play. The man is against it. They remember the same events in two different ways, and each believes their own account. Theu Boermans's Dutch film is based on real events. The structure runs two times together: the young couple at sea, and two middle-aged people facing each other in the present. Sallie Harmsen and Elsie de Brauw play the same woman at two ages. The telling blames nobody; what it is really about is whose story the grief will be.