The documentary tells the story of the Dutch troops in Indonesia and thousands of children they fathered with Indonesian girls during the colonial war from 1946 to 1949. Fathers, mothers and children tell about their experiences. Veterans over 80-year-old talk in all openness about sexuality and love in wartime. Their ‘withheld children’, now all 60+ years old, look back on their youth in the new republic of Indonesia, where they were insulted as ‘offspring of the occupier’. Single mothers in Java and Bali describe their romances in a distant past that had a big impact on the rest of their lives.