The duo Koko – consisting of Taiko Saitō (vibraphone) and Niko Meinhold (piano) – fills the factory hall with an extraordinary sound spectrum. Their compositions unite various music styles with the rhythms of the Colombian Caribbean coast and transform the industrial space into a place full of atmosphere and poetry.

The musical magic finds a literary counterpart in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the classic of magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez. Actor Dietmar Bär lends his voice to the novel and brings to life the century-long epic of a Colombian family – a fate closely linked to a fictional village that experiences both rise and decline.

Also, Behzad Karim Khani's current novel "When We Were Swans" tells of origin, alienation, and the search for a place in the world. At the center is a family that fled from Iran, attempting to build a new life in the Ruhr area. While the father breaks under the uprooting and the mother finds new hope through education, the son repeatedly gets into conflicts with his surroundings. Yet, it is precisely in the confrontation with rejection and violence that he discovers his own way – and ultimately also a sense of freedom and belonging.