Westenwind

- Season 7

(2002)

Exceptional rain is likely to cause the Noordermeer wharf to be flooded early. Arch-rivals Conny and Emma remain too pigheaded to save either firm by agreeing on a reasonable price for bankrupt De Graaf. Max can't spend much time with Sjouke, so at her graduation party with the Romer brothers she ends up making love with Arthur, but Max is prepared to forgive her. At Charlotte's instigation, Iris abuses her medical skills to make Emma believe she's loosing her mind, like her ma at the same age. Emma ends up signing over her proxy to Iris, who now dumps Roland. Seeing ...

Now De Graaf has become a shipping company, Bas enjoys seeing Noordermeer grovel for an order and wants to turn it down anyway. Conny makes him accept it as best price/quality, but shows no more interest, still mourning Marco. Iris tells Charlotte Emma seems to be genuinely demented by now. In fact she realizes she was cheated, but continues to act crazy and hires a new male nurse as accomplice for elaborate revenge. She spares neither Max, who offers to take her in, nor Iris's twins, one of which can't tolerate sun light. Roland finally realizes what a loveless ...

Conny's mourning for Marco and Jacob makes her attempt suicide, but not go trough with it. Although nearly found out by Charlotte's new lover Ad Bots, Emma continues her dirty games, now even sabotaging Noordermeer's contract with De Graaf, but Bas lets them off easily. Max tries to scare off the Romer brothers. He ends up discovering Sjoukje cheated on him with Ernst during the video recording, to be aired, and dumps her heart-broken. Juup finally makes vindictive Tessa admit she went to far 'punishing' him.

Realizing Sjouke has a sensual relationship with race horse Blue Velvet, Max buys it. First he hoped to win her back, when she refuses risks it racing badly injured. Hoping to disinterest Conny completely from business, Charlotte pushes Ingrid to tell her the twins are Marco's. Instead the news rekindles Conny's taste of life. Bas is confronted with the Korean Jae Shin he left 20 years ago. Failing to commit after a single adulterous night, he learns she left for good, but not her son Toa Shin, aged 20.

After losing his expensive horse and Sjoukje, Max starts drinking with hobo Jucovic. Emma forms a vindictive alliance with Toa Shin. She bribes official Cornelis with the stolen-back Breughel-copy to pass red-tape. He tortures Bert 't Groenloo to sell him a wharf, then cancels its contract with Noordermeer to finish its ship for De Graaf and gets it himself plus the next order. Marcel gets Tessa's number from Juup, waves his warning but experiences she's a literally torturous date.

Juup takes charge of laborers protest against allegedly health-hazardous radiation from a communications mast on Toa Shin's wharf. He must agree to medicals, which Conny confides to Iris, whom Toa manages to buy. yet he gives in so as to appear generous and win Juup's confidence despite Bas. Niels and Ad's daughter Hansje bond while their parents enjoy sharing a sauna. Jealous of ma's lover, the scamp plans to electrocute him, which only fails by coincidence. Juup can't understand why Bas object to Toa teaching him the Korean martial art Bas is a grandmaster in. Emma ...

Juup insists to take Korean martial arts lessons with Toa Shin. Bas, a former international champion, warns him it's too dangerous, but Juup goes on. He even wins his first training fight against Kyum Son, and accepts to fight Tao himself. Then Bas steps in. Meanwhile Max studies the notes Jucovic left about ship propulsion inspired by squid-jets. Charlotte initially refuses to help, but gets so fascinated by the challenge to use it in ship-design that she neglects lover Ad, who falls for temptation elsewhere.

Max gets Charlotte, who enjoys love with Ad again, to help him, behind vindictive Emma's back, design a prototype of Juric's Aquajet, just in time as Emma gave both press and client a flippant deadline. Tessa discovers Jacob co-authored the brilliant design. Taunted by the arrogant Wiegersma sisters, Ernst decides to break their sidecar race record. He enlists initially unwilling novice Juup as passenger, but the girls play dirty in the shower and Sjoukje selfishly scolds their risk-taking.

Juup discovers his children, which he suddenly has trouble to see, are being beaten at his ex Wendy's home. Just after beating up her present partner, slaughterhouse worker Rocky, he learns the truth. Rotterdam is infested by rats. Emma stubbornly goes ahead with a media circus on the launch of Noordermeer's "aquajet"-innovation. Max and Charlotte desperately try to make it work or slow her down, in vain, even reputedly strict inspector Stoelmuller is already bribed-off. Jacob's correspondence proves what Charlotte's tests would confirm hadn't Niels ruined the ...