The series How My Neat Parents Ended Up in Jail tells the tragicomic story of two seemingly reasonable people who end up killing each other through a fighting divorce and do not realize how much damage they are doing to their children. Daniël and Kim Winkelman form a perfect family with their teenagers Lizzy and Max and their almost-teen Lou. Until Daniël announces that he wants a divorce. The news hits like a bomb. The mutual accusations become more and more false, Daniël and Kim end up in an ordinary fighting divorce, in which they completely lose sight of their children. Lizzy, Max and Lou do everything they can to stop their parents' struggles.