Boiling Point is the story of a century: from 1961 in Algeria until 2061 in Amsterdam. It is a century that repeatedly destroys and reinvents itself. Seven stories, in seven decades, in different places in the world, but the turning points in history connect all these people to each other. The French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara cause Ydder to lose his great love. But they also mean he meets Salma, who fled Damascus. Who marries Bern in Belleville. Who, years later, in a church in Utrecht calls out to him from the realm of the dead. Invisible threads of human shortcomings crisscross the world. Nothing in history remains without consequences, everything has a lasting impact on future generations.