“The World and All It Holds” is a multilingual, polyphonic, and gripping epic about love and exile. Based on the novel “Bejturan and the Rose” by Aleksandar Hemon, the production follows one of the most beautiful love stories in contemporary literature; that of two Sarajevo recruits, Rafael Pinto and Osman Karišik, who meet at the front during the First World War and fall in love with each other. The story takes us across decades, cities, and deserts of the world. From Sarajevo, through Galicia, Tashkent, and the Taklamakan Desert, to Shanghai and Hong Kong. Traversing war, famine, exile, illness, births, and deaths, “The World and All It Holds” confronts us with questions of what love can survive, the many forms in which it appears, and whether it is force enough to keep us alive even in the most extreme of circumstances.