Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.

A gang of city children is secretly practicing to enter a musical competition. All of them plunder their parents' supplies in order to build their own stage and amplifiers. Baffled by these unexplained thefts, the parents decide to hold a meeting as their suspicions turn to a group of camper folks living across from their flat. The tables are turned when the residents take a camping holiday of their own and end up being mistrusted by the locals as much as they themselves did their own neighbors. Meanwhile, the children's gang meets a rival group of kids who are planning to enter the same competition.

A circus is traveling across the country, Circus Pipo to be precise. When Pipo, Plom, and Klukkluk perform, a big scary man takes a keen interest in Plom and especially her ventriloquist dummy. When the dummy is stolen, the trail leads to the harbor. It turns out that the big scary man has kidnapped the puppet. Pipo, Plom, and Klukkluk follow the man onto the ship and get locked up in the hold. When they are released, they are captured by the crew, who turn out to be pirates. How did Pipo end up here again? Lubbeduh, the pirate captain, stole the puppet because it resembles his lost son, Takko. Lubbeduh takes our friends to his island, the Island of Yesteryear.