In a few minutes, everything changes: the men are rounded up and taken away. They are taken on foot, under guard, across the Maas bridge to the Roermond station. That very same day, their journey to Germany begins, where they are forced to work. The working conditions are harsh and hunger, cold and uncertainty become their daily reality. In Beegden, more than a hundred men are taken away and five of them never return home. What remains is the void they left behind and the memory of a day when a community was disrupted in one fell swoop.