Transport firm acquisitions chief Tjeerd Fokkema (43) is found in his garden by a neighbor's grandson, skull smashed with a 'silence' monkey garden statue. He was on bad terms with his grumpy neighbors, including sculptor Siep Wijers, rumored to have an affair with Fokkema's girl-friend Viola, which both deny. Recluse Wim Van Eck's alibi in an obvious fake. Rude rumor-monger Mrs. Harskamp keeps her cancer-recovered daughter Jolien in bed needlessly, but she sneaks out to be with Tjeerd's abused dogs, which she and Wim care for. Old secrets, including a whole identity, are needed to close the plot.
—KGF Vissers