Together with a group of young people they reconstruct their individual memories of the right-wing terrorist attack in Norway, during which 69 people – many of them children and adolescents - were murdered. In the hope of being able to confront this traumatic event and, at the same time, share their own experiences with their peers, the four survivors re-enact what they went through in a minimalist, reduced manner. In a shared process of speechlessness, grief and understanding, they have the other young people re-enact what happened by giving a series of instructions that the latter follow. The documentary accompanies them in a manner both reserved and sensitive, allowing the participants a safe space for their stories, emotions and questions. All the while, it is the very abstractness of the film's staging that makes the unimaginable tangible.
Text: Merlin Webers
English: Peter Rickerby