The statue of an unknown mother

For 68 years the Norwegian man Jan E. Ridd of Oslo has walked by this sculpture of a woman at the City Hall Square when he during coincidence learned that he was adopted but never told.

In 2004 in a police file about Norwegians during the Cold War he got to know he was adopted by a woman wasn't married and lived apart from the father. He learned this woman stood model to this statue her friend Per Hurum made he has seen so often.