The television drama series Ramses portrays the rise and fall of the immense popular Dutch singer and actor Ramses Shaffy (Maarten Heijmans) in the late fifties till the end of the seventies. Ramses Shaffy had an incredible urge to live and did this in a grand and compelling way. Ramses shows three sides of the fascinating life of Shaffy; the way his rock and roll lifestyle inspired many people and on the other side how destructive it was for some of them. The series and his songs also show his heartbreaking loneliness.