The Brazen

In this documentary, Stien den Hollander was followed for several years, from her greatest performance in front of two hundred million people at the Song Contest in Turin, to her most vulnerable moments at home. It results in a penetrating and sensitive portrait of a young woman who, in the eye of the storm, takes her career to the next level. As an adolescent, Stien struggles with mental problems and ends up in various youth institutions. She carries the events of those years with her throughout her life. As her fame continues to rise, the past begins to become more and more gnawing at her. More and more she asks herself the question Whether it is bad to put one's traumas away. Should she confront her demons, or can't she handle it? From a young age, she sings about her most sensitive topics, but actually talking about them with those around her proves more complicated. Within this quest, creators Linda Hakeboom and Rolf Hartogens is faced with a larger question: how does the outside world deal with someone's trauma? During the film we as viewers get closer and closer to the core, but how safe is this for Stien herself? S10 - that it continues to go well with me' touches on a larger theme of this generation: many young people struggle with depression. To what extent is it possible to learn to talk about our vulnerabilities, and how do you deal with it well as an environment? In the documentary, we get to know a young woman who is strongly and vulnerable at the same time. In an arena of great performances and reflecting in her own kitchen window, we see her struggle with her past. She faces her demons in the eyes by talking to her youth worker. But when that does proves confrontational, we must look together for a way to talk about the experiences of her youth. Eventually we travel to the place where Stien made the biggest choice in her life: the choice to want to live.