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Inspired by the real life of Klaas Bruinsma and his journey from hippie 1970’s Amsterdam to becoming Holland’s most influential drug-importer. A tale of crimes, loyalty and treachery. In the drug scene in Amsterdam’s underworld loyalty and friendship are valued the highest good.

It turns out to be the very reason Bruinsma is ruined. Known as the Dutch Godfather, Bruinsma was murdered in 1984. His unusual appearance and moralising manner soon earned him the nickname ’the preacher’. His motto was: do business honestly, without terror or violence.

A gripping and dark psychological drama where we follow Bruinsma’s life, the love-story with wife Annet and his struggle on the edge, between life and death. In writing the screenplay, director Gerrard Verhage took his inspiration from the life of the Dutch drugs baron Klaas Bruinsma and the book De Dominee by Bart Middelburg. Amsterdam, start of the 70s. Klaas, son of a very successful businessman, decides to dedicate himself entirely to illegal hash dealing, partly because he believes that this is a golden business opportunity and because he thinks it will only be a few years before hash is legalised but, more than anything else, because he wants to become richer than his father.

Klaas hates his heartless father whose main lesson in life was: Trust nobody. Not even your own father. Klaas begins his career as a drug trafficker working for Hugo Duval, the top man in the hash trade at that time. There he meets the love of his life, Annet. With her and his best friend, a kickboxer called Adri, Klaas manages to take control of the hash dealing world and, within the space of a few years, develops into the biggest hash dealer in the Netherlands and, at one point, even the world.