Joop den Uyl, the social prime minister, must decide on fate and future of the Prince of the Netherlands. For one week he steers between gentle forces, calling for reconciliation, hard forces, that want to destroy the reputation of the prince and the forceful Queen Juliana, who fully supports her husband. For the second time after the war a socialist saves the monarchy.

Den Uyl is not only in an argument with the head of state, he also gets confronted with an inner struggle: whether the consequence of his socialistic views will be an option for the republic? Whether he wants it or not, the answer to that question can not be avoided.
He realizes in the heat of the affair, that if the monarchy is incompatible with social democracy, the oppurtunity exict that the monarchy falls.

At last, a film about the idealistic and passionate ‘Ome Joop’ and the turbulent time that his party ruled (1973-1977). In the time of the boycott of the oil, 'Car Free Sunday ', the independence of Suriname and especially the time of the Lockheed affair. The biggest corruption scandal in Dutch history.

The absolute facts of the Lockheed affair form the basis of the screenplay, that has been written by Ger Beukenkamp in collaboration with Hans Hylkema. This had led to a faction-story, the mix between substantiated facts and speculative additions, which do not disagree with reality.