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I could have been a human being is a story about a mother and daughter who share a flat in Drammen, a busy city with a waterfront on the Drammen Fjord. When she was young, the daughter and her partner managed an environmental organization on the Island of Holmen, in the middle of the fjord. But as time passed, she somehow lost the grip on her life and ends up travelling to Morocco with a woman friend. There, she realizes that her worth as a person is mainly that of a ticket to the West. As the story draws to a close, mother and daughter are living together once more in the Drammen flat. Now that her mother has grown old, the daughter joins up with some younger neighbors who manage an alternative business.