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Ten years ago, Dr. De Prins moved to Monaco and turned over his private clinic De Wingerd to his son Nico. Since then he's only fascinated by Orchid, the real chief is top employee Norbert. He falls in love with widowed Tessa, and embraces her naive eight year old daughter Ella. However Norbert's horrible child, Clio is not happy about this. So after Tessa dies from a fall, Clio pesters gullible Ella and tricks her father into believing she's out of control and committed arson. So Elle gets packed off to rough aunt Ursula, who runs a camping site. She takes Clio's advices to cash Norbert's checks and send happy letters on behalf of Ella, but really treat her as a Cinderella and pretend to give her home schooling.

Life with Ursula 'tarantula' means endless chores for Ella. She finds some comfort with dog Tody and becomes buddies for a while with Jens, the sweet son of a family who are camping. After the dog dies and she's had enough and Ella decides to leave for good to seek happiness, without a plan. Ursula covers herself by pretending Ella stole cash from her. Wandering around, Ella shoplifts, ignoring the charming student who was working there is Jens. He even runs after her shouting it's all right, but is run over by a car while she's already out of sight.

Jens is still in a coma. Ella ignored his accident, wandered until she found her late ma's hair dresser's saloon and slept in its porch. The new owners, Cindy and her effeminate gay assistant Anthony De Keersmaecker generously take her in, show how they redesigned the place and insist to put her up, even fit her new clothes. Clio still manages to prevent dad Norbert discovering the abusive truth. She also fancies the private clinic's new eye surgeon, Dr. Lukas Vervloet.

Norbert has received notice from NASA that his medical zero gravity project has been selected, so he'll leave the clinic for a year. Nicolas De Prins doesn't intend to leave his cocoon for romantic or professional life. Dr. Werner Wolfs and Clio seem interested to become interim director. After telling Anthony and Cindy about adorable Jens and her shoplifting, Ella decides it's time to return to his night-shop.

Norbert still hasn't decided definitely whether to go to the States for a year long NASA research program, feeling a bit selfish if he does. Ella is so comfortable in the saloon, having met Cindy's boyfriend Walter, that she agrees to stay longer. To avoid stock taking with Anthony, she finally checks out the night shop hunk, ignoring that it's Jens. So she agrees to join the barber duo at a party, where she meets charming Federico, who starts teaching her dancing. Dodgy P.I. Van Dam keeps asking for more money from Norbert to keep searching for Ella, and from Clio for not finding her.

Nicolas does a great job making sure aristocrat Mout, the 'marriage candidate' which Linda arranged to dine with him, learns a lot about orchids and leaving him in peace. Frederico feels in love with Ella, although she 'danced' his feet black and blue, and calls her to make another date, but she goes to great lengths to hide from Anthony and Cindy she can't read, which complicates handling a cell phone hugely. Dr. Wolfs and Clio each hope to take Norbert's director seat if he accepts the NASA research.

Nicolas is number three on a national magazine's annual list of most eligible bachelors, but still shows no interest in dating, while Linda keeps playing matchmaker. Norbert refuses Dr. Wolf's research project on principle while objecting to the expense of the entertainment Lucas proposes. After nerve-wrecking preparations, Frederico picks up Ella for their fist solo date.

Frederico takes Ella on a tandem ride trough Lier and explains he returned to Belgium aged 12 after she divorced his Portorican dad. Carmen gets him to wait before asking a year off work to make a world tour with Ella by the same vehicle. Anthony dreams of 'converting' straight doc Lukas. Clio wants dad Norbert to hand over to her the management of Nicolas's affairs after moneybags brushed her off. Ella feels she can't live at Cindy's for free and travel without savings. Cindy enjoys another date with adulterer Walter, until he announces his intention to leave wife and kids for her.

Frederico grudgingly accepts to delay his tandem tour until Ella has earned some savings. Opening one of her fake application letters make Anthony and Cindy realize she's illiterate, which ruins even the only job application without diploma requirement. Norbert lets Clio convince him she's capable of managing Nicolas's affairs in his absence, but fails to convince Linda to join him on his Florida assignment and make their affair public.

Linda tries to oppose Norbert's proposal to let Clio manage Nicolas's affairs in his absence, but the young heir says he trusts Norbert in that matter too. The doctors both claim to be confident to picked as interim director. Constant 'hints' from Anthony fail to make Ella admit 'spontaneously' she's illiterate.

Dr. Norbert interviews his potential interim directors again, notably on how either would cope if the other were chosen, then takes resident eminent researcher Dr. Arends' advice. After Clio haughtily tells Linda she's "the best", Linda suggests herself to manage Nicolas's affairs but is laughed away as not a business person. Ella finally admits to Cindy she's completely unschooled, illiterate and dyslexic. Frederico dates her again.

Lukas is nominated interim hospital director, Dr. Wolfs reproaches Dr. Arends to have decided Norbert's choice. Detective Van dam learns Norbert considers adopting Ella and realizes he can bleed sole heiress Clio for much more. After the labor inspection, Ella must stay out of the saloon and gets Anthony to advance the money to pay a fine if imposed on Cindy.

Frederico arranges for Ella to get a shot at a waitress job in Ronnie's bar. Anthony realizes the klutz will mess up but trains her. Norbert keeps looking for her, despite Clio and Ursula's sabotage, hoping to cure her dyslexia and maybe even adopt her. Dr. Arends reminds him the NASA project is worth leaving other things behind for a year.

Dr. Lukas moves into Norbert's office. Nicolas coolly accepts his affairs being entrusted to Clio, who already feels boss in the clinic too. Ella's first day as waitress goes well, until she looses a unique key.

Frederico starts sensing Ella's love isn't unshakable without knowing she finally follows Cindy's advice to return to the night-shop. They find out the hot clerk is none other then her first love Jens Martens, but he was victim of a hit and run. 'Singer' Anthony stars at the home celebrations for her new job, but ends up with a hangover so labor inspector Sam Stokmans catches her serving waiting customers drink wile the official staff showers, which means a legal charge. Dr. Lukas wonders if Nicolas may be gay and acts embarrassed when his friend comes pick him up at the clinic. Detective van dam wonders why Clio wants him to find Ella.

Nicolas makes crystal clear to Clio she's not supposed to bother him in person. Frederico is clearly not amused when told Ella still dreams about Jens. Dr. Arends approves of Dr. Lukas's confident attitude towards his jealous rival. The desperate Martens parents bring in their son as the clinic's new patient: Jens.

Jens is still comatose, now in the clinic. Clio now believes the way to Nicola's heart and fortune is becoming a fellow orchid expert. Anthony's excitement about a near unique hairstyling device turns into panic because of bad timing. Just when Ella goes make up with Frederico, she jealously misjudges his meeting with an ex. Dr. Lukas Vervloet reaches a compromise about economical patient care with Dr. Werner Wolfs.

Dr. Werner Wolfs warns Dr. Lukas Vervloet about Clio's arrogance and intent to acquire power trough Nicolas after being threatened just for jokingly calling her 'Mrs. De Prins'. Frederico saves Ella's waitress job after she wickedly threw vodka in his face, even though that gets him fired as DJ. Anthony helps them but shivers learning the illegal employment court case is impending.

Cocky Cindy is so eager to refuse the lawyer Anthony and Ella arranged that she rudely turns away a reporter from a lifestyle magazine the saloon would greatly benefit from. Labor inspector Stokmans visits as a client but is saucily treated to a shameless hair-grooming prank. After bribing and yet cheating aunt Ursula, Clio orders detective Van Dam to substitute his search with keeping watch either at work or Clio's home wherever she's absent.

Nicolas makes crystal clear to Linda he doesn't expect to find a friend, and to Clio cut orchids are a sacrilege. Cindy's flippant refusal of legal counsel and lack of preparation doomed her labor court trial from the start, but her cocky style looks like she'll even be slapped for contempt of court. Dr. Lukas Vervloet refuses to involve the clinic in Dr. Werner Wolfs' rabbit eye transplant follow-up project.

After failing to get any result with female charms on Nicolas, Clio tries shamelessly seducing Frederico to a kiss, then withdrawing haughtily. Despite Cindy's stupid bumbling throughout the trial, the judge acquits her after Ella admits being illiterate, discrediting Sokmans's report of her writing down client reservations. Barman Ronnie insists to fire someone for the vodka-incident, so Ella leaves to get Frederico reinstated.

Lukas's friend Koen makes him leave when Anthiny joins them on a pub's terrace. Furious because Lukas rejected his eye transplant researcher project, Werner considers confiding into Clio, who keeps snooping around. Ella dreams about literary fame but messes up her first reading lesson. Frederico is feeling romantically stuck until he learns Ella gave up her job to redeem his.

In order to make up with Frederico in the clinic, where he works, Ella braves her early memories about the place where Norbert got engaged to her mother who died there. She stumbles into Jens's room. Nicolas grudgingly accepts to start preparing for 'princes day', his annual meeting with the clinic staff. Clio discovers Werner finances his research by selling medical prescriptions and demands a 10% share. Cindy has another dinner date with Walter.

Frederico happily welcomes Ella's make up-visit in the clinic. She senses to know the Martens couple, unsuspecting they're visiting her true love, their comatose son Jens, and consider giving up his life-support. Clio tells Lucas she takes all Nicolas's decisions and feels Walter's eye transplant research is worthwhile. Lucas tells Linda Nicolas's agoraphobia can only be overcome gradually and voluntarily, but the patient sees trough her ploy to get him to eat in a restaurant, only Clio's growing knowledge of orchids impresses him. Cindy cuts Walter's wining about his wife short to resume his adultery. While Frederico dances with Ella, Anthont believes Frederico's ex's claim they just had sex again.

Clio dreams of seducing Nicolas with her orchid knowledge, but her dream-prince still refuses her accompanying him on 'Prinsjesdag'. Lucas's answers to Anthony's personal questions don't reveal if he's gay, just that Koen is merely his gym buddy. Anthony hesitates whether to believe Frederico or his ex, but is persuaded to keep quiet by Cindy, who throws in an apprenticeship while continuing her adulterous affair.

Nicolas sees Linda is upset and tries to appease her worries he'll never be happy without finding a good wife. After researching eye transplants, Clio assures incredulous Werner she can get Nicolaas to approve his research. Anthony and Cindy start training klutz Ella, who invites Frederico, who joins in applauding her bumbling as if excellent.

Nicolas makes clear to Linda she can't get him to date women, not even nursery heiresses, but leaves he r hope he may join her into the garden on 'Prinsjesdag'. After Anthony and Cindy's klutzy adventure to reach the picnic couple, Frederico proves their supposition he would have another affair with his ex a completely unfounded misunderstanding. Clio pays aunt Ursula for a box with Ella's childhood mementos.

Nicolas makes sure trough Linda that Clio can't manipulate his part in 'prinsjedag', so Dr. Lukas will greet the guest with him. Frederico and Cindy regret Carmen's jealous attitude. Anthony's spying trough client Jasper renews his hope hunky doc Lukas may be gay.

Lucas may be amused by queer Anthony's attempt to find out if he's gay, his gym body Koen hates it and makes them leave. Nicolas still tries to wriggle out of 'Prinsjesdag'. Frederico acts as willing guinea pig for Ella's incompetent hairstyling practice, but she now thinks of him as a steady lover. Werner weighs heavily on his corrupt nurse accomplice Danny and brushes off Jasmine to perform a clandestine rabbit eye harvesting. Clio tells Norbert that Ella may have returned to her ma's house, so he promises to look up where that was.

Dr. Lucas makes Clio approve the 'prinsjesdag' program and accept jasper's renovation tender. After a tip from dad, she searches for Ella's ma's home address in the pre-PC clinic archives. Frederico is caught between jealously fighting female friends. Ella's first non-complaining client is celebrated, but she's being apprenticed illegally.

Nicolas still doubts whether to participate in 'Prinsjesdag'. The arrival of the police made Ella panic and cut jasper's skull. In fact it's about aunt Ursula's fake theft complaint, which is made credible by the camera recording of her night shop theft, which also makes her realize Jens had his accident while running after her. Lucas brushes off Clio's haste to consult the old personnel files and 'passes' Cindy's seduction test, so she and Frederico now presume Anthony may be right he's probably gay. Werner conceives a dirty trick.

Prinsjesdag had finally arrived. After bugging Lucas about the last-minute ongoing preparations, Clio makes Nicolas even more furious by fighting with Linda who gets to escort him in public. Danny hands Werner the remote control for the eclectic magnet his mate made so they Anthony is worried, unlike Cindy, because Ella spent the night with Frederico, who thus is late to help with the party preparations.

On long-awaited Prinsjesdag, Nicolas only accompanies Lucas for two speeches after Lida managed to lock out Clio on his loft's terrace. Anthony sees Werner's tricked chandelier crashing down and saves his 'dream prince' by tiger-leap. Ella wondered off trough the clinic, until she stumbled upon Lien kissing Frederico, and refuses to believe he was caught off-guard. Finally she enters Jens room, only to find he's comatose.

After the chandelier crash, Nicolas is even shier, preferring Clio's paperwork to another blind date. Frederico gets desperate when Ella and Cindy bluntly refuse to consider his story. Anthony is proud to be in the paper for saving Lucas, who investigates the incident while Werner suggests a maintenance error. Dr. Arends finds Ella in Jens's room.

Anthony meanly calls Frederico an incorrigible flirt, but after Lien's confession Ella is now drawn between feelings for him and comatose Jens. Danny demands Werner grants him 50-50 now he knows even more dirty secrets. Lucas keeps investigating the chandelier fall and clearly suspects Werner.

Anthony's big dinner is a disaster when dream prince Lucas brings his girl-friend, which he openly calls a fake to hide being gay. Nicolas confides in Clio he fakes interest in a girl to get Linda off his back. He shows even less interest in Clio, who now instructs Van Dam to find Ella's ma's former home. After ruining another client's haircut, Ella drops her apprenticeship.

Clio convinces Nicolas her adviser job is too heavy unless she gets a room in the clinic, or actually, as other space is needed, in his loft suite. Anthony is a silent wreck after the 'romantic' dinner. Nurse-cahoot Danny impudently braves ever-rude Werner. Lucas is atypically edgy. Precisely his secretive attitude about Koen makes Clio suppose it's his gay mate. Ella treats Frederico to a surprise private dance party.

Nicolas refuses Clios moving in for Lidna's sake. Lucas denies Clio's suggestion Koen be his gay mate and scolds Cindy for starting such rumor. Despite the romantic dance and believing Frederico's romantic confession he couldn't kiss another even when he thought their break-up was final, Ella fakes belly-ache because she can't forget still comatose Jens, but promises Cindy she'll try to forget him.

Frederico treats Ella to a fancy restaurant, where she lies no longer to love Jens when she mistakes someone for him. Jasper tells Ella dyslexia can be treated. Lucas presses Cindy to pass on he's straight. She sneakily circumvents his refusal to disclose Jens's condition and is asked by his parents to cut his hair.

Nicolas maintains his refusal to let Clio move in against Linda's wishes. The schemer accidentally discovers, while Lucas refuses to meddle, that Linda has a contract with his dad, promising a 'pension' fortune after 45 years, ending in 12. Frederico's ring has to be retrieved 'naturally' from the lap dog who swallowed it. Ella makes clear she's not ready for an actual engagement. Jasper gets the renovation contract. When Anthony and Cindy bump into labor inspector Stockmans, she verbally attacks him. Jens's comatose condition is unchanged.

Dr. Lucas faces industrial action unless he can recruit more staff fast; so he offers Ella a job when she lies to have studied nursing. Clio blackmails Linda to let her move in with Nicolas, who seems to weak to object himself. Anthiny is startled to discover Cindy and labor inspector Sam ended up reconciled- in bed.

Pressed for staff, Lucas pleads with 'nurse' Ella to join the clinic, but despite encouragement trough Anthony and Cindy, she finally decides not to risk patients' health, however badly she wants to get near Jens. Clio's moving in proves bitter for Linda.

To Clio's disappointment, moving in with Nicolas brings no romantic progress, in fact he only shows interest in a mysterious pair of eyes (Ella's?) on the 'prinsjedag' pictures. Lucas has the police investigate the chandelier incident, but it's too late for proper forensics. Danny now blackmails Werner for free prescriptions. More pressure on Ellma makes her dream of a nursing career, not accept Lucas's job offer.

Clio talks Werner out of resigning by promising to make her dad reconsider Lucas's interim directorship but fails, also to make Nicolas overrule Lucas. Detective Van Dam reports to Clio he found out about Elma's two dismissed theft charges. After failing to find an unskilled job, Ella enjoys assisting Jens's haircut and decides to pose as a nurse after all.

To prepare justly insecure Ella for her first day in nursing, Frederico reads from a first aid manual, with Jasper Fahadir as willing, ticklish practice 'patient'. Lucas proudly announces his recruit. The clinic's old paper archives has arrived, so Clio can start searching them for Ella's ma's old data. Cindy convinces Fredericio's cleaning colleague Carmen to keep silent.

Dr. Wolfs asks and gets Clio's help to deal with blackmailer-nurse Danny. After a hasty introduction by Dr. Lucas, bumbler Ella's first day as nurse, supposedly trained in Germany, is a total disaster by matron's demanding standards, despite help from Frederico. Yet washing Jens makes it all worthwhile for Ella.

Ella's bumbling on her first day as nurse nearly blows her cover and makes matron demand her immediate dismissal as she can't even distinguish oral from anal medication. But pleas from Frederico and patient Willy, an old veteran, praising her bedside manner, so Lucas can let her stay. Washing Jens feels like heaven. Back home, she gets a surprise party. Clio tells Werner she has dealt with Danny, not how, and finally finds Ella's late ma's home address- Cindy's.

Because Ella remains physically distant even after the party, Frederico drowns his disappointment in alcohol and gets seduced by Clio, who has discovered Ella's ma's home is now Cindy's shop where her picture is obviously recognized, although that's denied. Lucas accepts more lies about Ella's Bavarian 'private nurse schooling'. Werner worries how Ella handled Danny as he's missing.

When Ella overhears Dr. Lukas telling Jens' parents that it's time to consider ending his artificial coma, she convinces them to give her a chance to wake him. This soon results in his first finger grip since the accident. Clio calls P.I. van dam saying she has tracked down Ella, then twists her ankle. Cindy, confident Ella's cover can be kept up, and justly doubting Anthony and Jasper help the bitch to the clinic. Werner diagnoses she just needs rest, an ideal excuse to stay in Nicolas's apartment. Frederico feels guilty over his drunken infidelity with Clio.

Dr. Lucas finds no evidence of Ella's claim Jens squeezed her hand, but his parents want to give her six months. Werner shows Clio his blackmail insurance, recording of her making love with Frederico, demanding she gets Nicolas to end Lucas's directorship. Anthony can't convince Cindy they must warn Ella about Frederico and Clio.