You can recognize social losers by their address.

Maartje and Wine were teenagers in the nineteen eighties. The time when it was still possible to buy a house with a garden in the inner city, even if you were not a multimillionaire. Our mothers always told us: everyone has equal opportunities! Go for it! You are the catalyst of your own happiness!

Now, 30 years on, with a husband, a too hefty loan and a few children, we wonder: what went wrong? Did we not try enough? Did we not want enough?

Our house is becoming too small for us and our offspring, but we do not have the slightest idea where we can move to. Preferably not to the Slotervaart. You can recognize social losers by their address.

Perhaps our mothers were wrong?

Maartje and Wine read Schäfchenim Trockenen, the successful novel of the German writer Anke Stelling:

Wine: “It is as if you are reading about your own life. It is a tragicomic family manifest. A type of complaint that can also make you burst into laughter. “

Maartje: “It is all about the realization that social class obviously plays a role, despite the idealistic ideas from your youth.”

Together with musician and performer Harald Austbø, they take on this book.