Death in the floods. On 25 December 1717, a powerful flood breaches the North Sea dikes. Almost ten thousand people drown. The young cottager Joenes Marten also loses his family in the waves. He is left with only two sons. And a daughter: a child the father has never seen. Joenes almost collapses from this stroke of fate. But he carries just as heavily the secret, the old debt that binds him to his blind brother Claus. Meanwhile, all attempts to mend the dike fail. Anger grows within Joene... A dramatic novel by the successful author of "Teufelsmoor "