A compilation film in four parts about the “beauty, treasures, inhabitants and culture” of the Dutch East Indies. The film was compiled composed by Johan Gildemeijer using material that J.C. Lamster and colleagues shot for the Colonial Institute for the Tropics in the Dutch East Indies. (Source: filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl)

Directed by Johan Gildemeijer.

A street singer manages to work his way up to the position of an opera artist, only to be struck by fate, and return to his life on the street.

The wealthy farmer Kobus Drost is asked by his cousin Verbeek to come to Volendam to discuss the financing of his boat renovation. The meeting with Anna, Verbeek's maid, makes a big impression on Drost. He convinces the young woman to go with him to work on the farm. Drost's older sister is not particularly happy about this, nor are most of the farm workers, who tease the stranger from Volendam. Kobus, who likes Anna, often has to protect her. When he notices after some time that Anna and employee Arend are very fond of each other, he becomes terribly jealous. As soon as Arend is called up for military service, Kobus takes advantage of his absence and asks Anna to marry him. She agrees.

A street singer manages to work his way up to the position of an opera artist, only to be struck by fate, and return to his life on the street.

Mario is a very successful violinist who marries Meina, a housewife. They are happy together until she starts a dancing career and becomes even more successful than her husband. Mario becomes jealous of his wife and estranges himself from her. They only become closer when his strict mother dies and their daughter is threatened.

Mario is a very successful violinist who marries Meina, a housewife. They are happy together until she starts a dancing career and becomes even more successful than her husband. Mario becomes jealous of his wife and estranges himself from her. They only become closer when his strict mother dies and their daughter is threatened.