Mon pays sous les eaux

Synopsis of Mon pays sous les eaux

In June 1672, Peet leaves his parents' house on the banks of the Zuiderzee to work as a waiter at Maître Boerhave's inn. Spring is beautiful and Holland is at peace, despite disturbing rumors. Suddenly, the news arrives: Louis XIV has crossed the Rhine with his entire army and is invading the country. One evening, Peet takes a jug of beer up to a strange traveler who seems to be hiding in his room. Who is he? What is his secret? When the young man discovers it, he shudders. To stop the enemy, the Dutch prepare to break the dikes and voluntarily flood their country. Peet, stunned, receives the dangerous mission that the wounded traveler cannot carry out himself.