tom helmer: he founded the group opium voor het volk with (co)playwright willem de vlam, whom he met at the department of theatre studies at the university of amsterdam. opium voor het volk brings themes, ideas, mistakes and desires that characterize the lifes of their audience into dramatic form. at the time tom works on a play about a man and a woman, who keep improving theirselves with new technology, to impress each other. meanwhile they rocket through the layers of society.