It Will Never Be Spring 1994 on netflix

A female writer bases her newest book on the affair she had with her publisher in this Dutch drama. Lin is the glamorous writer who finds herself pulled out of a canal by two riverboat men. Her story is told in flashback. Her recently published book “Wildgroei”(Dutch for “Wild Growth”) chronicled her one-sided passion for her publisher Emile who chose Lin’s sister Marot instead.