ELSFJORD 1942
A group of Yugoslav prisoners of war arrives at the Osen prison camp at Luktvatnet on the south side of Korgfjellet. Among them is the young writer Derviš Imamović. Life and work in the camp is inhumane and horrible, but in the darkest hours the light emerges in the form of the love of a young girl on the other side of the barbed wire.

BODØ 1974
The cancer-stricken diplomat, Derviš Imamović, travels with Nordlandsbanen towards Bjerka to visit the grave of the love of his life where the prison camp once stood. On the way he is haunted both by the memories of the unimaginable suffering in the camp and the memory of Erika.

GRANIT IS a journey towards reconciliation with the past and at the same time a prisoner of war's dream of freedom and the future. It is a story about longing for the homeland, the mother tongue and the arms of one's mother, and about the thirst for music, poetry and art. It is the fight to survive, help, save, liberate, illuminate, escape and fly. And about loving, and loving someone called Erika.

IN THIS strong monologue performance, loosely based on the book of the same name, we get to experience the human solidarity during the Second World War. The solidarity that went on to become an important basis for the friendship between Yugoslavs: Bosnians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Croats and Norwegians. A friendship that to this day is still growing and flourishing.
About the bloodline and Nordlandsbanen
DURING WORLD WAR II, over 500 prisoner of war camps were established in Norway, the lion's share of these in the 3 northernmost counties, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. Hitler's aim to impoverish Norway required the implementation of a huge infrastructure project without sufficient manpower. The solution was slave labor from prisoners of war who built the track and road that are still in use today.