Anne en de vuilnismannen

Being a garbage collector is usually not mentioned as a future dream job. In fact, there's a good chance that your teacher emphasized that you'd end up riding on the back of a garbage truck if you 'didn't do well'.

Anne van der Steen is a theater maker, but the pandemic forced her to become a garbage collector. She comes from a family where everyone is highly educated, while she did vmbo. Although her mother has always stressed "that she has other qualities," the idea that she is worth less continues to plague her. Since becoming a garbage collector, the profession that symbolizes the lowest of the low, that question looms larger again: does she actually matter? And how do other garbage men experience it?