It is an ordinary Saturday in April of the year 1949 when Vera de Jager has a horrific accident. She is thirty-four years old, married to Johan and mother of Bas (7) and Eline (5). In the prologue of the book this day is described from the perspective of the five-year-old Eline. After that we go back to the year 1915 when Vera is born and follow her in the context of her family and circumstances of that time. Notwithstanding several setbacks Vera grows up to be an independent and enterprising young woman, who wants to escape the narrow mindedness of her youth and she climbs the social ladder with courage and perseverance. After the accident her life is totally disrupted and she has to give meaning and content to it again from an total different perspective.