A man and a small boy racing on bicycles come to an intersection. The man stops as a truck approaches, but the boy rides on. For a couple of minutes the world stands still and a jogger has the power over life and death.

Boris Paval Conen was born in 1968 and graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 1993. He was awarded the Tuschinski Award for his final exam film Horror Vacuï, and is currently active as a screenwriter and director of narrative films and television dramas. In 2002, Conen was awarded a Golden Calf for his direction of the television drama series De Negen Dagen van de Gier.