Oscar Verhulst married Lucy van Delden when she was a mere 18 and he was pushing 40 to honor her fathers dying wish. Years later he wants to divorce her on the grounds of infidelity. However he insists on getting custody of their only child, Gieltje. His lawyer De Vos proposes to hire a young, newly appointed barrister named Eric Hoogland who has just had his first success defending crooked car salesman Henri Bolleman.
