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Van Gogh´s last feature film is a personal reconstruction of the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on 6 May 2002. The thriller, adapted from Thomas Ross´s book De zesde mei, is told from the perspective of Ayse Him, a Turkish conservationist working for the Dutch Secret Service, and press photographer Jim de Booy. The film opens with infiltrator Ayse feeding Volkert van der G.´s plan to liquidate Fortuyn to the Secret Service. At the same time, Jim is photographing a soap star at the Media Park in Hilversum. A passer-by disappears behind the fence. Shots are heard, police sirens start to blare and a car drives off, grazing against Jim´s motorbike. Quickly, the photographer takes some pictures, not knowing they will turn out crucial. From that moment on, Jim steps into a snake pit of intrigue and imbroglio, in which both he and his daughter are threatened and Ayse´s and Jim´s paths cross. The film, interlarded with TV footage, suggests that the murder of Fortuyn was not a one-man crusade, but a preconceived plan of the Secret Service, international businessmen and hypocritical politicians.