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As Holland is about to be liberated from Nazi Germany, shy, working-class Anton remembers his friendship with affluent David, a Jewish boy that he befriended five years earlier when they were paired together to train for the Olympics.
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Two young oarsmen are trained as a coxless pair by a mysterious German coach in the golden summer of pre-war Amsterdam. Through the pressure and rapture of physical exertion, teamwork and victory, Anton the shy outsider and calmly self-confident David forge an intense relationship. But on the wintry eve of Holland's liberation, Anton stands on the bank of his beloved river and mourns a lost world: David has disappeared during the Nazi occupation and the boathouse is now derelict and deserted.
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