The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old
Hendrik Groen
Hendrik Groen is an 83-year-old resident of an aged care home in Amsterdam. He begins a diary recording the daily tribulations of life in an institution surrounded by his peers and confronted by the health challenges that come with being an octogenarian. He starts the diary with the telling line, ‘Another year, and I still don’t like old people.’ The residents of The House of the Setting Sun are a mixed bag of stereotyped elderly people, many of whom spend... More >