Come as You Are

Wheelchair-bound Lars and Philip and their blind mate Jozef, all in their twenties, desperately long for a coming of age journey and the end of virginity. They convince their parents to let them drive through France to Spain in a specially equipped minibus, chaperoned by experienced nurse Theo, omitting that their Spanish destination is near an accommodating brothel. Lars gets a diagnosis spelling early death and Theo cancels, but Lars convinces his mates to go anyway, with the bus being driven by Theo's francophone friend, the obese Claude. Nothing goes to plan, yet satisfaction is found until the bitter end.—KGF Vissers