How an offensive remark rebounds like a boomerang on the one who launches it! Revenge as a motive plays a key role in the study of the causes and consequences of rude conduct. A string of succinct conflicts leads, with changing perspectives, to a surprising climax, and teaches us that the wounded Person can never efface his or her pain by hurting someone else, because in many cases the unforeseen effects are quite far-reaching.

In the year 2000, Hanro Smitsman (born in Breda, 1967) mastered in film directing at the Amsterdam Academy for
Film and Television. Since then he has been directing various short films that have been acclaimed in the Netherlands and abroad. Informed by a socially engaged artistic practice, his Awards winning short films DAJO (2004), ENGEL EN BROER (2005), and RAAK (2006) have attracted international attention.