De Bende van Jan de Lichte plot
In 18th-century Flanders, the people are poor and oppressed by yet another occupier. The highwayman Jan de Lichte and his accomplices form a band of robbers, which plunders a bloody trail through Flanders. They raid stagecoaches and castles and divide their loot among the poor. In this way Jan de Lichte grows into a hero against will and thanks.