Each year Thomas goes an a pilgrimage but he has more difficulty to complete it, but then he is offered a footbath that appears to contain a miracle drug. Wouldn't this make a huge seller during Expo 58 in Brussels... .
Julleke would have loved to have been a student but he never made it beyond the post office of Mussegem. His friends Mil and Frans have no financial worries and their motto is 'the dafter the better'.
Hazeke -the daughter of innkeeper Tapmans- marries Paul - the sun of a rich industrialist called Conti. Hazeke learns that her husband used to hang out a lot with a certain Mary.
Gaston is a rather simple office clerk. He is about to marry and has just rented a new flat. Life is smiling upon him. But then it turns out that the house is being used as a refuge for Gaston's boss and his girlfriends. Even worse, his two cousins appear to want to help him out of problems that are not really there at all.