Recent research shows that stress and trauma from extreme experiences can settle at the cellular level and be transmitted from one generation to the next. What happens when an entire village is hit?
On 6 September 1942, Tangen at beautiful Majavatn is struck. The Gestapo is on the trail of the resistance movement. Men from the Lingen-company lie in ambush. It will be a bloody skirmish.

In the middle of the chaos, we find Gustav Kappfjell, who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, out on an innocent errand. During the occupation days in 1940, Gustav fought bravely side by side with many young men from Helgeland, but now he is sick and tired of war and misery. He just wants to live in peace with nature.
Fifty years later, Gustav stands at Majavatn station, where a young German woman fleeing her own childhood traumas gets off the train. She is looking for answers, and Gustav is forced back to the dramatic days of war - to the memories he would rather forget.
"Kappe land" is the name of an old children's game, where the aim was to steal land with a knife. In our history, we are reminded of how international grand politics can affect a small mountain village in Nordland
Recommended for everyone over 12 years.

The Majavatn affair
The Majavatn affair cost 24 young men from Helgeland and 10 resistance fighters in Trondheim their lives. Friends, family, neighbours. In 1942, the German Gestapo tracked down the resistance movement, and it all culminated in skirmishes at Tangen farm in the autumn of 1942. This led to a local upheaval where 24 men from Helgeland and 10 resistance men in Trondheim were executed in Falstad camp on 8 and 9 October 1942 .
The performance has been created through research and interviews, and the historical facts have been treated with respect and accuracy based on available sources.
War Travels
The performance has a new premiere during Bodø2024 in connection with the capital of culture project War Travels, which seeks to dramatize the region's under-communicated and intimate war stories along the Nordlandsbanen.