Three years later. Walter has passed away from AIDS leaving a grieving grandmother Anna, who is now temporarily in a wheelchair. Walters son Kobe suffers from his death and develops a personality disorder, resulting in multiple assaults and rapes of his closest female friends. Mieke has moved on from the loss of Marc and Lennart and marries the son of her good friend Gaston. Jan and Linda struggle with the cost of two young adults, with Leen studying to become a doctor and Maarten finding his passion in cooking. Peter goes into business with shady foreigner Graham Boardman, who soon turns out to be Xavier Latour. Bertje Van den Bossche returns from China and has become a very succesful businessman with the help of his new girlfriend Cixi. Veroniques son Cédric gets leukemia.
