Hans Hennie Jann's modernist novel The River Without Banks - about the formation and decline of the human personality, about memory and creative imagination, about the voices that live inside us - was written during the tragic years (1934-1946) on the Danish island of Bornholm. Wooden ship - overture to the trilogy. The novel unfolds the ancient metaphor of human life as a dangerous voyage. A young man stows away aboard a departing ship to be with his fiancée during a strange voyage with an unknown destination and suspicious cargo. The hero explores the labyrinth ship and his own consciousness.