The Emperor of Taste(2008)

The Emperor of Taste is a Belgian series that unfolds when Helena's 80-year-old husband George dies, prompting her to ask her granddaughter to investigate a decades-old mystery. Alfred, George's closest friend, perished in a WWII prison camp where both men were held captive. As the granddaughter digs into what really happened, long-buried secrets and suppressed grief surface across three generations of the De Keyser family, gin distillers based in Hasselt. The investigation becomes a reckoning with trauma, loyalty, and the weight of silence that has shaped the family for over seventy years. What begins as a quest for historical truth transforms into an intimate portrait of how war's shadow lingers across time.