Eward, student in the hospital’s laboratory, breaks one of the rules; he steals one of the lab rats and takes it home in its little cage. On the tram a girl sits next to him and asks what he has in his cage.

His study is a struggle, he feels lost in the city and unable to direct his love to anyone he directs it towards the rat and the girl who regularly visits the hospital. He wants to know more about her. Is she visiting someone in the hospital or is she a patient herself? And if she isn’t a patient, who is she visiting and why so often? And why is she suddenly standing at his door

Jan van Mersbergen spins a fine woven web around Edward. With a subtle and suggestive style he unfolds the lives of the sensitive young man and the girl who are both looking for something. But maybe they are not looking for the same thing?

‘The Rat in Heaven is a classic.’ – 
De Standaard