Suddenly left a legacy of 500 pounds, Rachel Higgins, maid-of-all-work in the Palfrey household, desires to become a "lady". Helped by Madame Recamier, a modiste who pities her, Rachel, perfectly gowned, manicured and versed in the art of deportment, applies to Lady Muriel Tahourdin for instruction but is scornfully told: "You have the soul of a servant and can never have that ...
Feest (Feast) is all about the budding love between Peter, a fifteen-year-old boy from the fourth grade of the gymnasium, and the girl Anja with the tails from the second class, arrived a few weeks before from Haarlem. The idyll, typified by genuine middle-class craftsmanship, gets a rough turn at the end of the film.