De wederopstanding van een klootzak

Om mekaar in Dokkum was published in 2004, and van Driel realized the opportunity for a film[5] and wrote the screenplay based on his book.

[5] Ronnie is a violent criminal from Amsterdam who miraculously survives an attempt on his life, and goes to Friesland with his bodyguard Janus to track down his would-be assassin.

In the account of the saint's chopping down of the Donar Oak he recognizes the connection between Frisian trees and his own belief in magic imported from Africa; both hail from a pre-Christian tradition and a world in which nature is worshiped.

[5] Earlier, he was a ruthless and violent killer who beat a woman to death because her husband owed him money;[7] now calmer, he is open to the world of sense and takes unprecedented pleasure in food.

[8] The movie's violence prompted mixed reactions—a scene in which Ronnie sucks up someone's eyeball with a vacuum cleaner was widely discussed, and André Waardenburg, movie critic for NRC, criticized van Driel and fellow screenplay writer Blokker for approaching Quentin Tarantino in a monologue by mob boss James Joyce about singed canaries.