Based on the book by Jessica Durlacher, which was partially based on real events in her own life. After the death of her father, a peaceful man and concentration camp survivor, she had found a loaded gun inside his desk drawer, indicating that despite the fact that he had made peace with his troubled past, the father had never stopped being afraid of the future.
The scene when the son is becoming a US marine is not filmed in the US but in Kootwijk (Netherlands) in the Radio Kootwijk museum.
Was originally meant to be Antoinette Beumer's next project after Loft (2010), with Michael W. Horsten and Lars Kristian Andersen adapting the screenplay from the novel by Jessica Durlacher. A script was eventually written by Beumer's sister Marjolein Beumer, and the movie was also meant to be the very first Dutch film for Antoinette and Marjolijn's famous sister Famke Janssen. However, Antoinette eventually passed on the project so that she could rehabilitate properly from injuries sustained during the making of Loft, which caused Marjolijn and Janssen to pull out as well. Menno Meyjes took over directorial duties, re-writing the screenplay himself together with Durlacher.
World premiere at the 2016 Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht
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