Plot

During the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, a young woman and a naval officer search for her lost infant son.

A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young Air Force lieutenant who agrees to help her look for her little son. A near-hopeless quest ensues.—Swie Tio <sweet_t_prod@hotmail.com>

On the night of 31 January 1953, during a terrible midwinter storm, the dikes in Zeeland are breached in more than a hundred locations and the farm of a young girl, her family, and her baby is engulfed by the flood. After the flood, everyone wants to get out of Zeeland. The girl swims against the tide of evacuees, into the disaster area. Her name is Julia. She is looking for her baby.—Anonymous

A Dutch Navy lieutenant duly worries when his civilian brother Koos warns that their parental home is under threat from unprecedented storm tide, the start of 1953 disaster that flooded half of Zealand (southern Dutch coast) as the dikes broke. Convincing Air Force pilot mate Theo to fly a helicopter there, studly Aldo finds his family safe and dives to rescue from the flood young mother Julia. Despite storm warnings, she had left home to cycle to a party, only to be surprised like everyone, climbing higher at home wasn't enough as the sea rose, finally wrecking the very house, and the basket in which she had put her baby boy is last to be swept away. Julia stubbornly insists they keep searching at excessive peril and dire prospects. They find out only at a memorial 18 years later that he was stolen by another mother who had recently lost her own baby, and she raised Julia's to be a fine young man.—KGF Vissers