journey towards reconciliation with the past - and a prisoner of war's dream of freedom and the future.

This is a story about longing for your homeland, the mother tongue and the arms of your mother. It is about the thirst for music, poetry and art. It is the fight to survive, help, save, liberate, illuminate, escape and fly. And it is about loving, and loving someone called Erika.

In this powerful monologue, freely based on the book of the same name, we get to experience human solidarity during the Second World War. The solidarity that went on to become an important basis for the friendship between Bosnians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Croats, and Norwegians. A friendship that to this day is still growing and flourishing.

The performance is performed in Swedish and subtitled in English.

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 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 by the Nordland Railway 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 his beloved Erika.

War Travels
Granitt is a part of Bodø2024 capital of culture project War Travels, which seeks to dramatize the region's under-communicated and intimate war stories along the Nordland Railway.

War Travels will not only remind us of the effects of war on people and society, but also of how our past, present and future are intricately intertwined.

War Travels also include: Sona/Zona, Kappe land, Narvik and In the Garden of Arctic.