The head of state of Yugoslavia perceives the Nobel Prize as a recognition of the country for its non-bloc and non-aligned policy. Dobrica Ćosić hurries Tito to send Andrić a telegram congratulating him. At the press conference, Andrić answers the journalist's questions about Bosnia and his childhood, recalling his stay in Sarajevo in 1945, going to his mother's grave, the assembly of ZAVNOBIH and meetings with Elije Finci and his school friend Boro Jevtić. From Sarajevo, he went to Guča Gora monastery, where he spent a period of his youth. Returning to 1961, Andrić receives Tito's telegram and the pressure to respond to it immediately, as well as a strange dream that leads him to the knowledge that he is probably the only person in the world who personally knew both Hitler and Gavrilo Princip.
