Piet is gone tells the story of Piet Beentjes, who went missing on the isle of Texel in 1987. For 30 years, Toos Beentje | dG1fREFpRXZqenBUcDQ
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00:00This film was made with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Health and Welfare
00:21Piet's passport.
00:24It was just lying at home.
00:27I think it's a very lonely person.
00:31Why?
00:33Well, that you're on an island, in a house,
00:38baking eggs, and suddenly you're gone.
00:45Then he goes to the kitchen, finds a can of nasi,
00:50warms it up, and adds an egg.
00:53As the story goes, it's as if he was home with our child.
00:58You'd think so.
01:00But that's absolutely not true.
01:03We don't know the boy at all.
01:09In time, I did hear the rumour that a policeman had said,
01:14he does flush.
01:18Where did he come from?
01:21Where do you think he came from?
01:24I think he came through the forest.
01:28Here.
01:30Where's the beach?
01:32The beach is here.
01:34Two kilometres away.
01:36Was he afraid?
01:38Yes, I think he was afraid.
01:43It's not uninhabited here,
01:46but it's not a place where you could look for help.
01:50As a stranger, you don't know that.
01:54And he was a stranger here.