Story
Louis (Axel Daeseleire) is a successful editor of the men's magazine Don. He feels like he is the boss of the universe, until he bumps into Eva (Véronique Leysen). He convinces her into sleeping with him, dumps her and then continues his life. Eva can't accept this, and asks her best friend, Babs (Lotte Mariën) for advice. She speaks an occult curse on him, not aware that on this night, a special cosmic constellation of planets takes place. That night, Louis is transformed into a woman. When he wakes up, he panics. His roommate and best friend, Charlotte De Wilde (Ianka Fleerackers), convinces him to go to the editors disguised as Louise, the niece of Louis, and do a very important presentation for investors of Uitgeverij Hercules, the company behind the magazine Don. [2]
When his boss, Vic Mutsaerts (Rudy Morren), tries to call Louis, he is surprised to get Charlotte on the line instead. She quickly lies and says that Louis had to leave for his sick father in Canada, and that his cousin and confidant Louise will lead the meeting.
Louis has to go through life as a woman now. Louise (Hilde De Baerdemaeker) turns out to be a beautiful woman and finds out what it's like to be a woman in modern society. Louis faces that Louise is not often taken seriously and doesn't know what to do. Charlotte introduces Louise to the world of women, with little success. Tasks such as walking on high heels and forgetting about her manly principles seem impossible. By trial and error, she learns the disadvantages of women, but also the benefits. Louis then has to make a decision of staying a woman or changing back to a man, which is made difficult by the fact that his Louise ego has fallen in love with a man. [3]
Everyone was impressed with Louise's performance, especially art director Thomas ( Roel Vanderstukken ). He seems to have a thing for her, but as a true macho, Louise is naturally disgusted by the idea. She therefore handles pushy men in her own tough and "masculine" way. Meanwhile, Vic discusses Louis's sudden departure with the staff. Everyone believes Louise is the right person to replace him, except Bruno Sels ( Werner De Smedt ), Louis's best friend who is now eyeing his position. As Louis's right-hand man, he believes he's the best person to fill the position. He's convinced that with a little "sweet-talk" with his colleagues, they'll choose him. In that case, restructuring would take place, and everyone gradually begins to dream of a promotion.
The rest of the editorial team consists of Kaat Coucke ( An Vanderstighelen ), a woman who suffers from an inferiority complex and does everything she can to compensate for the lack of male attention, Patrick Maes ( Steve Geerts ), a rather insecure boy who constantly tries to seduce women but often ends up in the wrong hands and is seen as a macho by them. The beautiful Anouk Van Hove ( Bieke Ilegems ) is Bruno's assistant in bullying Louise out. He is also helped by Nathalie Mutsaerts ( Eline De Munck ), the beautiful daughter of boss Vic who wants to take over Kaat's position but is mainly after Thomas, and the new errand boy Nico Messiaen ( Matteo Simoni ), a free spirit who is suspected of theft.
Finally, there's the friendly receptionist/secretary/coffee girl Jana Pattyn ( Kim Hertogs ) and Claudia Beel ( Elke Dom ), owner of Hercules publishing house and majority shareholder of Don . Her husband Vic is Don 's manager and is therefore dominated in every aspect of their relationship. Theo Vynckier ( Manou Kersting ) is a Dutch investor who, at every opportunity, interferes with the editorial staff of the men's magazine.
Charlotte, Louis's childhood friend and roommate, is a radio presenter for Hart op de tong (Heart on the Tongue ), a program on Radio Bavo owned by her ex-boyfriend Maarten Stevens ( Herbert Bruynseels ), who still pursues her as if she were his property. Another colleague is Jasper De Roeck ( Ward Kerremans ), better known as "DJ Elvis," a mysterious boy who is happy to help Charlotte and doesn't ask any questions. . [4]
