Policeman Raphael Styx is shot dead. When the sun rises again over the chilly North Sea the next morning, Styx's body washes up on the beach. He resurrects. Without a heartbeat. Is he still alive? He searches for an explanation but increasingly loses control of his instincts, putting his family in danger. Step by step, he discovers the horrifying truth behind his condition.
Set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 begins as three friends - Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc - begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to Brussels. But as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risks losing their innocence and noble illusions, as they find themselves caught in the middle of the horrifying events that shocked a generation and will come to leave a scar on the entire country.
Aziz is 40 and runs the hair salon 'Without an appointment'. But actually, he would much rather be a musician. One day he decides to go for it, helped a little by coincidence, an early midlife crisis and a neighbour who unwittingly gives him a push. But standing between dream and deed include his down-to-earth wife, a headstrong teenage daughter, a son with plans of his own, a critical father, a criminal brother-in-law and a gang of extortionists.