The Resettled was created at the intersection of two worlds: the memories of seniors who witnessed post-war resettlements and the personal family histories of the young actors. They meet on stage not to decide who remembers more “truthfully,” but to try to answer a question that is particularly pressing in Goleniów: why is my home here?
It is a play about uprooting and putting down new roots. About suitcases that were never fully unpacked. About homes that had to be subdued and constrained. But also about the power of community, about love passed on despite the trauma of war, and about how memory – even painful memory – can become the foundation of identity rather than its burden.
It is a story about a journey. Not only the one marked on the maps of post-war Europe, but also an inner journey – full of loss, hope, and rebuilding lives from scratch.
This performance acts as an open door. It invites conversation: between young and old, between the past and the present, between where we come from and who we want to be. It leaves the viewer with a question that does not concern Goleniów alone:
Can we hear another person’s story in such a way that it becomes part of our shared home, and not just someone else’s story?
The Resettled creates a space for this conversation – a space that is tender, subtle, and necessary.