Directed by Johan Gildemeijer.

A street singer manages to work his way up to the position of an opera artist, only to be struck by fate, and return to his life on the street.

A compilation film in four parts about the “beauty, treasures, inhabitants and culture” of the Dutch East Indies. The film was compiled composed by Johan Gildemeijer using material that J.C. Lamster and colleagues shot for the Colonial Institute for the Tropics in the Dutch East Indies. (Source: filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl)