Summary Episode 3 1956

Anton has moved into his own apartment and finished medical school. Anton is now an intern studying to become an anesthesiologist. From time to time Anton suffers migraine headaches that cause him to spend whole days in bed. Anton does not believe this has anything to do with the events of that January night in 1945. Recently a mob of thousands has besieged the Felix Meritis building in protest against communism. Anton's apartment building is situated behind the Meritis building,
so the noise of the protest caused him a great deal of trouble the first night. The second night Anton thinks of sleeping at his aunt and uncle's home, but when he gets off work he believes the protest must be over and decides to go home anyway. Unfortunately, Anton has misjudged the fortitude of the protesters.

Anton parks his scooter a few blocks away to prevent damage by the protesters and walks to his building. There is a huge crowd in the street beside his building. As Anton attempts to enter his apartment, the crowd pushes up against him as the police arrive. A large man holding a rock presses Anton into his door. As suddenly as the crowd pushed against him, they disappear. Anton is left there facing the man with the rock. The man is Fake Ploeg.

Anton invites Ploeg into his apartment. They begin to discuss that evening. Fake tells Anton how his father's death devastated his family. Fake's mother was jailed briefly after the war and then had to take a job as a house cleaner. Fake had to drop out of school and has become an appliance repairman to help support his mother and two sisters. Fake claims it was all terribly unfair because his father was a good man who only did his job to the best of his ability. Fake claims that the death of Anton's family lies more with the Resistance fighters than with his father. Fake begins to cry, then becomes angry and breaks a mirror on Anton's wall. Fake begins to leave, but returns to tell Anton he never forgot the kindness he paid him that day in the classroom when he stood up against the teacher on Fake's behalf.