Capelle's former town hall, which has not served as a town hall since its amalgamation with Sprang and Vrijhoeve in 1923, is used for a variety of other things. During the Second World War, it was used by the resistance group Andre, among others. Resistance fighters Hans Hoekstra and Jan de Rooij collect valuable intelligence about German troop movements on the other side of the Maas at the end of 1944 and transmit these to the town hall, where two Delft students, Dick Flemming and Ad Schoorl, from the resistance group Andre further distribute the messages to the Allies. Every night, one of the students decodes the messages received and transmits them. This information allows Allied forces to plan vital countermeasures. But disaster lurks. In December 1944, a German V-1 flying bomb strikes the town hall with deadly force. The building is completely destroyed. Dick Flemming narrowly survives the disaster and a new location must be found.