Glad ijs is about hard-working self-made man Phil "Frisco" Druyts. While Phil is wildly popular with his employees and across the country, his own family is very different. So he sees his life's work disappear unexpectedly when his wife and oldest son sell his ice cream factory behind his back. Shortly thereafter Phil is kidnapped and the whole country is in turmoil.
Tristan Devriendt, a 25-year-old student of medicine who fully enjoys life, suddenly gets the dramatic news that he has cancer. Ambitious dreams are abruptly interrupted and make way for a life and death struggle. Tristan, his family and friends end up in a confusing clash of emotions with humor and love as an unexpected side effect.