Pengu i një ëndrre
The Pledge of a Dream

Summary/Abstract: Being tapped from his past, through a dream, more precisely a nightmare, the phrase "Come home!" always returns to memory and consciousness of Jozef Montanaro (Passio, Anton Gojçaj), who lives his daily life in uninterrupted condition of anxiety and loneliness. To return to his past, to his birthplace, is his greatest fear and his curse at the same time. All what he had achieved in life has been a distraction, just a way to escape from the reality that used to follow him is his dreams. Living a metropolitan life in New York, where he is already a successful painter, all this achievements has not been able to wipe out his troubled conscience, the fixed sensations of that day when he saw his father being murdered. From that moment, something inside him did not grow anymore. He took this little child inside him into the new continent and for years he tried to coexist with him throughout the years trying to forget the past. Trying to escape from everyone he used to know and from anything related to his Albanian identity, deeply he hoped to forget who he was and where he came from. But in his dreams something was constantly calling to return home, just like the curse of an ancient spell that would never disappear without fulfilling a certain condition. "Come home!," this was the curse that used to chase Josef Montanaro every night and day; it was the voice of his father, his mother, his ancestors, and his land, all these subjects who joined in this message to bring the man (the “lost son”) to meet once again the child that he lost, so he could talk to him, to pacify his soul and to release the call of the dream and the old remorse and to return home. In his sub consciousness, his home in Arza has remained the same like when he left that day, his father, Gjon Zefi, is not dead, his mother and sister did not get old even though Zef Gjoni himself (his real name) was 70 years old. Returning home, meeting with mother and sister, and confronting his childhood memories is, above all, the reunion of Jozef Montanaro with himself, Zef Gjoni, and the final liberation from the call of the dream of a lifetime.

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