starring David McKay and Kate Dickie

best actress at British Independent Film Awards 2006

Don’t tell me we didn’t want the best for our kids.

A young couple check into a hotel with their two small children. A week passes before the police make a chilling discovery.

In 1999, in the suburban town of Aalst, two parents murdered their children. The ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to
much soul searching in the Belgian media.

In 2005 the Belgian theatre company Victoria dramatised the case, working from source material including statements and
interviews, TV footage of the trial and a documentary on the murder investigation. Born in Europe, re-worked, re-shaped and re-imagined for a UK audience by a brilliant and eclectic creative team, Aalst has built a reputation as a powerful and complex piece of modern theatre.