Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and his friends laugh at him openly. As he scrambles to fix a drug deal that went catastrophically wrong, he desperately searches for an answer to the question: Who or what is punishing me!?
Acting
van Huêt plays five roles, each more pathetic than the last.
Direction
ten Horn blurs reality and folklore until you can't trust either.
Production
The peat-cutting sequences are genuinely haunting cinema.
Director
Michiel ten Horn
Fedja van Huêt
Jos / Peat Cutter / Hay / Rich Man / Buckrider
Sezgin Güleç
Özgür
Livia Lamers
Linda
Michiel Kerbosch
Lei
Anniek Pheifer
Dien / Wife of Hay / Wife of Buckrider
Georg Friedrich
Hendrik
David Kross
The Grape
Victor Löw
Fairground Operator
Yasin Boynuince
Deniz
Hasan Ali Mete
Idriss
Chris Nietvelt
Bulke
Stefan Perceval
Prince Carnaval
Leah Thys
The Tick
Murat Toker
White Haired Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Buckrider (Bokkenrijder) is genuine Dutch-Limburg folklore — ghostly robbers who rode flying goats. The film weaponizes this regional myth for modern masculine anxiety.
Ten Horn reportedly had van Huêt rehearse each role separately for weeks, ensuring Jos never truly recognizes himself in his folkloric doubles — only the audience does.
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