This small rural village has nothing to offer but mud. Young Ype is bored out of his mind. Until he decides to build a road to the city. But with the road, the outside world starts to arrive in the village, and time accelerates. The villagers that leave, are replaced by strangers who have no business being there. Day trippers and imports, foreigners that don’t understand a thing.

Now Ype’s road is turned into a race track, populated bysinister characters. His daughter on the other hand refuses to listen to him, and chose a proper profession. While Ype is increasingly captivated by his new colour television, she smokes, drinks, and hangs out at the track.

The New Road is a story about a time that is both long gone and very close. It tells of the unbridgeable gap between generations and the deeply human desire to escape time and reality—whether via a road, a screen, or some homebrewed alcohol.