Troostmeisjes

Troostmeisjes tells the true story of the hundreds of thousands of people who, in the 1950s, were forced to flee their homeland of Indonesia for the Netherlands because of their mixed heritage.

Princess Sarikem, daughter of the Sultan of Solo, lives a charmed colonial life on Java with her Dutch husband and beautiful daughters. Like Sarikem, all three of her daughters have married Dutch men – against the wishes of her father, the sultan.
When the Second World War breaks out, Japan occupies the Indonesian island. All the Dutch are interned and deported to Burma. Before long the Indonesian people rise up against 300 years of Dutch oppression. Even people of mixed heritage, like Sarikem's daughters, are no longer safe in their own country. They flee their homes and choose of their own accord to live in the Japanese concentration camps. But are they really safe there?

A drama about the women who were abused as ‘comfort women’ in the Japanese camps, and about how our smallest decisions can have enormous consequences.

Type

Feature film

Status

In development

Genre

True story / Historical drama