It's the night before the opening of their restaurant and while Luciën is confident everything will work out fine, Karel is rather nervous. On the day of the opening, Karel's worries soon shift focus when new tenant Frits arrives.
Luciën feels his relationship with Karel is in a rut. Meanwhile, Frits convinces Karel to exhibit a painting of a young and hip painter so they can make some money. That evening, an old lover of Luciën visits the restaurant.
Luciën is very upset when his new parakeet hasn't eaten in three days. Meanwhile, after she finds a dark poem he wrote, Dirkje thinks Frits is depressed and might be considering suicide.
Karel's joy over a new mirror in the restaurant is quickly replaced by severe stress when two crooks walk in and threaten to smash the place if they don't get two hundred guilders that evening. Meanwhile, Dirkje has her first boyfriend.
Luciën discovers a new sport on TV, called Border Ball. Together with Border Ball fans Dirkje and Frits, he drives Karel nuts with his new found passion.
Dirkje feels very insecure about her appearance after Karel has called her ugly. Frits tries to fix a problem with the sewerage and ends up cutting the power.
Karel and Luciën's argument about nothing is greatly surpassed by a fight a couple in the restaurant are having. Frits keeps asking Dirkje what he has to do to get her to sleep with him.
Luciën, Dirkje and Frits want a proper Christmas dinner and Luciën finds a cook who agrees to make them one so they can all relax for once. Unfortunately, he is a bit of an alcoholic.
Karel tells Luciën that in some regards, he's annoyed by Luciën's effeminate manners. That evening, an over-the-top gay couple enters the restaurant while Frits, in order to impress Dirkje, tries to find his feminine side.
Karel's joy over a pretty full restaurant for the evening quickly turns into anxiety when Frits tells him the group of twelve women who've reserved are probably lesbians who'll very likely cause quite a stir.
