The author Jørn Riel uses storytelling and pictures to lead us into a magical children's world in Odense and Copenhagen 50 years ago. Imagination and reality together forms a fantastic tale.
March 21, 1945 was a fateful day in Jess Ørnsbo's life. In Copenhagen, the Shell House was bombed by British planes and the war was coming to an end. Jess Ørnsbo talks about a tragic incident that affected him deeply.
When Poul Ørum was 16 years old, he went to sea with a schooner from Marstal. The skipper was an unreasonable, choleric and sadistic person. And everyday life on board was hell. Ørum made plans to kill his tormentor.
Peter Seeberg recalls with enthusiasm his childhood holidays from before the world went awry. Admittedly, the Nazi threat from the south was real - but in Seeberg's southern Jutland universe, the everyday idyll was a dominant constant. Only slowly did the modern reality gain a foothold in his life.
