Dream Deed

In the period 18911927 Henriette Roland Holst goes through a dramatic development As an aspiring poet from an affluent bourgeois milieu she throws herself full with idealism and conviction into the labour movement Within the various socialistic parties however a fierce battle on direction takes place wherein Henriette has trouble finding her place After returning disillusioned from a trip to the Soviet Union she does not feel at home in any leftist party Later she will recollect on this period in her biography Het vuur brandde voort translation The fire rages on The film reconstructs this period with the use of old film material combined with texts by Henriette Roland Holst herself fragments from letters poems speeches and books sparingly supplemented with personal commentary by the filmmaker