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The official Dutch entry for the 2000 Academy Awards, this family drama, directed by Ineke Houtman, is adapted from Guus Kuijer's popular children's book. Little Madelief (Madelief Vereist) is forced to think about her grandparents during her grandmother's funeral. Her grandfather, a stern and forbidding man, tells her not to go to the mysterious hut in his swampy backyard. This is of course exactly what she does, and in the process, Madelief learns that her grandmother was denied all that she loved by her strict husband.