Barcelona Cafe

The Cafè Barcelona, on a corner of Amstelveld Square, in the center of Amsterdam, is at the heart of this story. But Cafè Barcelona is much more than the story of this bar and its loyal patrons, who drink beer and sing the songs of André Hazes. The bar owner started a new life with another woman after her husband’s death; her son is involved with the Dutch Blue Helmets in the surrender of the Bosnian city of Srebrenica; the bar owner’s new partner has a daughter with plenty of reasons to start traveling around the world… The sum of the characters’ hidden secrets affects the daily life of the café and also the life of a globetrotter from Barcelona who finds the last chance to save himself.

Full text in Dutch.