Westenwind

- Season 2

(1999)

Over a year later, Fleur graduates in America and returns to Rotterdam, hoping to get Marco back, but he isn't interested. Anton hopes to return home and exact revenge on his family, but gets a violent rage when Emma refuses him entry. Noordermeer proudly launches the latest build ship, but is desperate for new orders. De Graaf expects a South African order for 7 container ships, but must then expand, dump regular customer Kofferman's smaller order and subcontract some work to Noordermeer. Max manages to finds out the client and plans to offer them a better price. ...

Noordermeer is stalling the deal negotiations. Charlotte flies to South Africa to outbid De Graaf, but client Pieter Bloemfontein refuses knowing they can't get Marco's patented screw and decides to rat on her. Charlotte kept Fleur in the dark, so her reconciliation attempt with Marco fails disastrously. Abdullah realizes Charlotte only seduced him again to probe for the client. Before and after her trip, Charlotte is played masterly and anonymously by rich seducer Quinten Borgia.

After Charlotte's treachery, De Graaf has canceled the deal, but lacks an alternative. Jacob would turn to Kofferman instead, the others consider even teaming up with Noordermeer after all. Anton visits his family part-time, but clearly still suffers from a fire trauma, yet wants another sports car. Max agrees to a new deal without Charlotte. Quinten keeps toying with Charlotte, which gets her in bed. Fleur refuses to approach Marco professionally; when she tries romantically, he mistrust her and walks away.

Noordermeer and De Graaf receive Bloemfontein in style for the festive signing. Pierre is insulted the prude's prejudice prevents Felix being invited, so he brings him as classy drag queen Felicia. Sofie wines about her hostess effort remaining unmentioned, gets drunk and has sex with waiter Egbert. Sam nearly makes a fatal scene about their parents inviting Edward, who comes study in Holland, staying with them. Bloemfontein invites delegates back to Sout-Africa- Abdullah and Fleur accept. Tired of being kept out of business, Anton sabotages Max's presentation so he ...

Max and Connie's visions on doing business clash again, now on how to award subcontracts. This time his 'sophisticated modern' approach wins out. Anton now convinces his parents it's time to allow him back in the family firm, and steals psychiatric drugs to administer to his shrink, and steals Henri Hazelhof's file to make her crazy. Quinten Borgia makes Charlotte wait for him in vain, then arranges an official visit with two colleagues from his employer, Delta Consultants, which is making a study for the city which wharf should cede land for residential buildings. ...

Connie antagonizes her staff by accepting Max's proposals for coordinated HR management. She even manages to annoy Jacob by buying a grand company car like Max's. Sam meanly tries to force Edward out of the house. His college friend Trevor, a fellow horse-lover, is eagerly dated by Sascha, until Sam kisses him just to spite Edward. Charlotte enjoys Quentin's next romantic mystery date and hopes a threesome will convince him to doctor the zoning advice- in vain. Anton manages to make his shrink Freja believe former patient Henri, an ex con, is her stalker, not him, ...

Conny's attitude is about to cause De Graaf's first ever strike, yet she still won't listen to Marco and Jacob. Max offers Sofie a new sculpting studio and a catalog of Dutch models to chose from, nut the first, Stephan, seems slightly too frisky. Marco discovers Ellen stands in for dad Willemminding her dementing uncle Koos, an ex-con for a police homicide in a strike incident, and the truth behind that conviction. Quentin gets Chatlotte's keys. Edward finds the perfect gift for Sam, but mistakes her thank you-kiss for returning his love. Emma promises Anton a wharf ...

Conny still hasn't learned to trust Marco and Jacob's operational experience. Emma promises Max may get Charlotte's lead chair back if he uses his charms on Conny. He accepts, but cleverly steals a fax, as Marco guess but can't prove, to cause 30,000 Euro damage and win her grateful trust as savior. Sam keeps abusing helpful Edward, who overhears her ridicule his 'doggish' serviceability. Quentin introduces an SM element in his games with Charlotte and seems to make friends with Niels, who hates his new nanny Katelijn because he misses her predecessor. Anton gives ...

Abdullah is back from South Africa just in time for his ex presenting her present hot lover Carlos Vandevelde, but he's actually a paid escort. Sam sees him kiss another and tells everybody, Abdullah finds out the truth. Max uses a business reservation incident to share a London hotel room with Connie, retreat before she accepts romantic action and copy most of De Graaf's contract with Bloemfontein. Pierre discovers Charlotte hid Niels's bruises for him, and therefore suspects her of abuse, until she confesses her affair with presumed culprit Quentin. In a gallery, ...

Now Edward realizes how loveless ingrate Sam abuses him, he accepts to write her English essay, but makes sure it poetically exposes her, then moves out. Both De Graaf and Noordermeer face delays for lack of electricians. Labor rules, an accident and contract terms below the belt drive both to despair. Jacob saves Marco's bacon, but Max ends up paying dearly from his personal account for the workshop for ingrate Sofie, who is getting seduced by Borkus. Katelijne is turned in for child abuse but released for lack of proof. Niels's attitude to the fired nanny suggests ...

Bloemfontein's inspector De Swart rejects Marco's untested design improvements: a significant delay and fine, but he allows a demonstration. Tijnnagel's crew accidentally cuts the current at Noordermeer. After a dreary dinner with boring De Swart, Max and Connie decide to collaborate. Now Felix's abuse of Niels is known, Pierre refuses any contact. He moves back in with Charlotte, but Niels senses his parents are not really together. Anton's meeting with old friend Leo drags him into high stakes gambling, for which he needs Freja's ability to see trough poker-faces. ...

Emma's P.I. finds prove Anton seduced shrink Freia, who is suspended. Even Max doesn't resist the board firing Anton, who attacks him for not warning in advance and starts setting fire to the office. Charlotte begs to see Quentin again, and gets her wish with a macabre twist. Marco accepts to enter a speedboat race, despite Conny and Ellen's objections he's swamped in wharf work, Jacob and Abdullah help him. Pierre moves with Niels into his new apartment. Sophie lies to Max so she follow her adulterer lover Borkus Koetsier to the States. Anton and Freija bet with his ...

Marco's speedboat has exploded during the race when hurting a floating keg, but he will recover. Jacob believes he can take Marco's place as screw engineer, but ignores the sketches are for a rejected version and his health suffers. Anton fails to blackmail Emma with grandpa Antonius's war past, but Freia helps him find out there is more and stage an alternative approach. Missing and hating Felix, Pierre seeks comfort with eager Sasha. Max's uneasy seduction of Conny continues. Adulteress Sofie tells Borkus she can't come to the States, changes her mind and thus ...

Marco realizes the ship won't be finished on time without him. Even after collapsing at his first attempt, he discharges himself. Freia's boss, Dr. Christiaan de Deugd, accepts to lift her suspension if Anton passes a mental health test with him. Freia coaches him successfully. After Sofie's breasts bleed, she fails to follow Max's advice tu sue Dr. Burghart, rather lets him try reconstructive surgery. Noordermeer sanctimoniously offered some of its staff to De Graaf until they realize Marco may still make its deadline, then call them back and fly in grumpy client ...

Now De Graaf has made its Bloemfontein deadline, it's offered the next six ships order. Marco pleads an independent course anyhow, but soon finds alternative orders are very hard to get. Max and Conny ignore Sam saw them kissing in the car before they get a room to make love. Anton hates being denied the company password, but sabotages the network and gets it. Thus he learns Noordermeer never filed for copyrights worth a fortune. When Max proposes to accept subcontracting with Conny again, Emma decides he has fallen for Connie and tricks him. Charlotte stays CEO, the ...

Noordermeer's triumph is undermined from within when Fleur calls a stockholders meeting, pleading for a Bloemfontein deal with De Graaf she finally convinces Marco and Connie to accept. Emma, Anton -who feels accepted again- and Charlotte believe they can swing the meeting by convincing two major non-preferential stockholders in advance a De Graaf bankruptcy promises better dividend in the long term, but a mysterious stock buyer seems to change the rule of the game. Niels is bullied at school because dad is seen kissing Sasha. Sam tells she saw ma kiss Max.

Now Sophie swung the Noordermeer stockholders meeting her way, moralist Fleur resigns from the board and becomes Conny's administrative assistant. Marco worries about Ellen's jealousy. Emma threatens Max to reveal his infidelity, then actually tells Sophie, who now confesses her own adultery. Conny must tell Jacob, after the anniversary dinner her prepared. He beats up Max, she moves out.

Zoning officer Theo Schopman announces the city is confiscating the Noordermeer real estate, at a ridiculously low estimated value. Max and Connie's known adultery still makes both families miserable. Adulteress Sofie plays the cheated wife, she and Max pretend to have hot dates but she can only get a nightclub gigolo who leaves disappointed. Anton overcomes Emma's objection to commercializing technological copyrights. Connie refuses to continue with Max, Jacob takes her back. Ellen's vicious jealousy of Fleur turns violent.

Only provincial official Huib Verhey can still save Noordermeer from being expropriated. Emma first sends Charlotte to try female charms, then decides he's her generation and takes over. He won't be persuaded but gets drunk enough to betray a guilty secret. Pierre can barely stand Felix long enough for him to retrieve his stuff, announcing he accepted a job abroad. Anton is blackmailed by a mysterious do-owner, and suspect the network system manager. Ellen tries repeatedly to prevent Fleur waking up and telling she caused the 'accident'.

Anton's anonymous blackmailer is back. An ICT specialist traces him to a queer quarter. Seeing Felix there with dogs, Anton makes him an offer leading to a permanent solution. Now De Graaf is the wharf to be expropriated, the city offers them an interesting alternative site. Max appeals to real estate contact Ed Doeselaar to cross them. Freja's conditional loyalty gets her dumped. Marco gathers the courage to get back with Fleur. Having made love, they decide to drop the charges against Ellen, who is released to emigrate.

Now De Graaf wharf is to be expropriated, only Marco still feels like starting over again somewhere else. He ends up accepting the others prefer to sell and enjoy the profit, even Abdullah. max and Charlotte decide to pull together and Emma's power-games- so the old tyrant takes full charge herself. Sasha decides to move to Vienna, in pursuit of her horsemanship ambitions. Marco takes a job in an engineering design firm, but the rigid chain of command stifles his brilliant ideas, so he resigns. Their parents hope to unwind on a long cruise, a plan with a short fuse.

After turning down every possible wharf location in Holland, De Graaf family considers accepting EU subsidies to relocate to Poland. Marco must wait if Fleur would follow. Sam is irrelevant, as she wants to join the Dutch Navy. Appie invests his shares value in a bar, but soon finds he desperately lacks experience, so must rely on a temp.

Now the De Graafs are known to be moving to Poland, Mr. Staal presents his security firm as pricey protection against the Polish mob. Marco gets attacked but expects he can handle the fiends on his own. Sam starts boot-camp in the Dutch Navy, where studly Simon Veghte becomes her guardian angel. Anton starts billing Noordermeer. Appie's pub doesn't work, so he sells it and buys a home. Temp waitress Bob becomes his house-mate. Emma gets another uppercut when Max joins his sons form and sells his preferential wharf shares: the family looses majority control.

Just when the De Graafs board for Gdansk (Dantzig), Fleur tells them there's an alternative: Anton's blackmail has made Noordermeer's stock so cheap they may buy the majority. Sophie's 10% proves decisive, and the lush hates the family business- now Max has defected and tries to help her beat the bottle, she sells to Jacob. Abdullah hits the Turkish nightlife and finds a hot date, but she only wants meaningless sex.