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One man's post-breakup trauma is played for low-key laughs in this comedy-drama. Jorvis (Stefan Perceval) is a postal worker in his mid-twenties whose world falls apart when his girlfriend gives him his walking papers. Depressed and aimless, Jorvis takes a room in a run-down hotel and spends his days drifting about Brussels, not sure what (if anything) he wants to do with his life. Jorvis falls out of contact with his friends, but crosses the path of a doctor (Senne Rouffaer) after finding his credit card, and makes the acquaintance of Luzie (Stafanie Bodien), a teenage girl who has run away from home. Verboden Te Zuchten was directed and written by Alex Stockman; it was his first feature.