"PERFECT CIRCLE" "What are you doing, my child?" "I'm dreaming, mother." "Dreaming that I'm singing." "You're asking me:" "What are you doing, my son?" "What does the song in your dream say, my child?" "Mother, it says I once had a house." "Now I have none, mother." "That's what it says:" "that I once had a voice and a language." "Now I have no voice and no language." "With the voice that I lost, in the language that I lost, I sing a song, mother, about the house that I lost." "Water!" "This way!" "Open and close the tap when I whistle." "OK, chief!" "Let the truck through!" "There's nothing left, beat it!" "Yes, there's water..." "But you can't have any!" "Get the truck out of the way!" "What's that?" "My kidneys... nerves, ovaries..." "It's all in there." "Where you taking it?" "Everywhere!" "To the children's embassy, the Red Cross,to Caritas, to Merhamet, the goodwill office..." "I'll find a place!" "What do I do?" "Give them the papers!" "Say I'm skin and bones!" "Miranda has to leave too." "She can leave if she wants to." "It's up to her." "Don't fight over me." "Tell him where your friends are." "Visna's in London..." "And..." "Amra's in Novi Sad." "Vesna's in Prague..." "That's not the problem." "She has to decide for herself." "Miranda!" "You want to go?" "Ready, chief!" "The water's over there now!" "Don't step on the hose!" "Where's your dad?" "Up there, arguing." "Will they ever stop?" "It's happened, ma'am." "What?" "Peace is here!" "Peace!" "What do you mean?" "They announced it." "Bullshit!" "Let him talk!" "America..." "Clinton..." "It's happened!" "Right away." "It's for that whore up there!" "Cut it off!" "Why do you get it before us?" "Leave her alone, kid." "Take it easy, folks!" "Turn it off, kid!" "Let it run, you idiot!" "Without me, you'd have no water, stupid!" "What's up, bitch?" "I'll come down and show you!" "Screw you!" "When you need liquor, you find it!" "Stop, dammit!" "You won't get through the checkpoints." "There's a war on!" "All around Sarajevo!" "They're hard to cross." "Especially if you're Hamza's wife!" "Get us IDs saying we're Catholics." ""Margarita" is a nice name!" "Invent a family name." "I've got the photos, it's all ready." "Why are you so mean to me?" "You don't want me to leave!" "You're so selfish!" "You're a bastard!" "Woman, my war's over once you're gone!" "Just get me those IDs!" "You like the name Margarita?" "Miranda!" "Watch out!" "Where's the bus?" "It's not coming." "The Chetniks didn't let it through." "There's a Number 2!" "Let's go!" "Jasminka Taric!" "Sanela Pandzic!" "Take it easy..." "Plema Arnautalic." "I already called her." "Hrustanovic Kemal!" "Uherka Milenko!" "Is he here?" "Bogoljub Nikolic!" "Take good care." "Dad, come with us!" "Don't cry." "I won't leave without you." "Be nice to your mom." "You'll be back in a month." "They forgot a bag!" "Screw that!" "You scared the hell out of me!" "Who are you?" "Adis." "And you?" "You hear what I said?" "He can't hear you." "How come?" "That's how it is." "What's his name?" "Kerim." "How did you get in?" "Through the window." "Why my place?" "We thought it was empty." "Now go." "Go on..." "Go!" "What is it?" "Where do you live?" "Nowhere." "What do you mean, nowhere?" "Where are your folks?" "Who do you live with?" "No one." "You must have someone." "Yes, Aunt Aicha." "Where is she?" "In Sarajevo." "Why aren't you with her?" "We couldn't find her." "OK, sit on that." "Not on the floor, on that." "Got any cigarettes?" "I don't smoke, my brother quit." "He quit?" "When?" "When Dad caught him." "Know where your aunt lives?" "There's a..." "What did he say?" "He says there's a hill, a street, a fountain, a cemetery." "There!" "Could be anywhere." "You know her family name?" "Vahidovic, Hamidovic, something like that." "What did he say?" "Dunno." "He's like that all day." "Can you write?" "Write?" "So write..." "Poor guy, you can't write either." "Bistr..." "Bistrik?" "OK, you'll go to Bistrik and ask." "Everyone knows everyone there." "Just go there!" "You must!" "You can spend the night here." "Tomorrow I have to fetch water." "I'll take you there." "Now get into bed." "Get undressed." "Lie down." "I've got hot potato pie." "Come up." "There they are..." "What'll you do?" "Take them." "Or they won't find their aunt." "I have to get water, so why not?" "Where they from?" "Why are they here?" "Who knows?" "Now they're awake." "Want me to come along?" "No, too many bombs." "I'll go alone." "Warmer with that scarf?" "Yes." "He asks what your buddy does." "Who, Marko?" "He's called Marko?" "Come on, run!" "Come on!" "His name bother you?" "It's a Chetnik, Serbian name." "Is he one?" "Names don't make you one." "Then what does?" "Killing people." "You sure this is the way?" "I don't remember." "It's changed." "But Bistrik is here." "Come on." "Come on, run." "A lot of shooting this morning?" "A lot." "Now it's calmed down." "Any Hamidovics live here?" "I don't know, I'm a refugee." "Watch out for those hills over there." "How can I hide?" "Try or you've had it." "Hello." "Anybody called Hamidovic or Vahidovic live here?" "Ask in that yellow house." "Thanks." "Where are these kids from?" "How do I know?" "Was the water queue long?" "Not too bad." "I told you so!" "Go fill the water cans." "We're worn out, we're gonna die." "You're gonna die!" "Come on." "Isn't that a cemetery?" "There's the house!" "Sure that's it?" "Yes." "Let's go." "Why did you run so fast?" "There's no one inside." "There hasn't been for a long time." "Everything got looted." "Refugees lived here, then they left." "Even they didn't like it." "But where are...?" "What's your aunt's name?" "Aicha." "She was taken to the hospital about a month and a half ago." "What for?" "It's the war, what else?" "Got hit by two shells in a row." "She's still in hospital?" "How would I know?" "She was quite weak." "Her husband tried to get her moved but she was very weak." "Check the emergency ward." "Thanks." "Let's go, kids." "What's wrong?" "Don't worry." "He didn't say she was dead, did he?" "We'll find out." "I know someone at the hospital." "We'll find your aunt." "Hurry, we're exposed here." "Mind that man." "Hurry!" "Duck!" "..." "That's right." "Hold on." "Stop, Kerim!" "Where are you going?" "Stop!" "Damn kid!" "Get over there!" "Go on!" "With the cart!" "Go on!" "Push it!" "You want to get killed, dammit?" "Learn to move around the city... what route to take... where to be careful...where to run." "They'll kill you in a second!" "They've killed thousands, shooting from the Jewish cemetery." "Let me get my wind back, kids." "Think he's in pain?" "Sure he's in pain!" "Why shoot the dog?" "Did he even make a decision?" "Who knows?" "Is he happy now?" "Who?" "The guy who fired." "Probably." "Who knows?" "Go on, run!" "We can't drag the water." "We'll come back for it." "What's up?" "Mortars, snipers, all hell broke loose!" "Whose dog is it?" "I don't know." "I almost got killed." "Ivana, ask your Mom for some cloth." "Where was he shot?" "Marindvor." "A woman got hit too." "He almost got us." "We were right behind." "His hind legs are hurt." "Why did you bring him back?" "All that for nothing." "With snipers, never be third to cross." "They see the first, aim at the second and kill the third." "Is it always like that?" "Mostly." "He's a goner." "You should put him down." "To end his suffering." "Please." "A pigeon can't live without legs, let alone a dog!" "Cut out the pigeon talk!" "I said what I think." "We'll get bandages and medication." "How will I manage?" "It's tough alone, but with a dog!" "I'll put them up." "They can stay with me till tomorrow." "Then I dump them on their family." "Forget it, he's in too much pain." "It's best to finish him off." "Almost no wood left." "Our dog'll be cold." "You'll have to make do." "You got books." "I won't let you burn the books, Adis." "Then give me a shoe." "Good idea." "Here, cover the dog." "Without Adis, we'd die of cold." "Here, take this one." "You must be hungry." "You bet we are." "Why didn't you say so?" "There's no food here." "How do you know?" "We looked all over." "You sure?" "Absolutely." "Now watch." "Come here." "I'll show you some magic." "How about that?" "Great!" "My wife hid some stuff for a rainy day." "I know some of her stashes." "For others you'd need a Geiger counter!" "What's a Geiger counter?" "This is a Geiger counter!" "So's this!" "That's why you have to keep books." "You see." "My wife's smart." "Very smart." "Give the dog some bread!" "Let him sleep." "It must burn where he was hit." "Eat, everything'll be fine." "Why didn't he run away?" "Beats me!" "What'd he say?" "Can you hear bullets whistle?" "Unless you're deaf..." "You hear them soon enough to duck?" "It's always too late, anyway." "Hamza!" "My buddy had his head torn off by a bomb." "In the village." "Think he heard anything?" "Eat!" "Then you go to bed." "Sleep there tonight." "It's safer." "How tall is your daughter?" "Like on the photo?" "A bit taller than Kerim." "That mark's how tall she is." "She comes up to here." "That was last year." "Last year." "Last year." "Yes." "A year ago." "She's grown since." "What's that up there?" "The light?" "What?" "Oh, that!" "When I get a cramp in my hand, I draw circles." "I take a pencil and I do this." "It cures my hand." "See, like this..." "Look." "See?" "Go to bed!" "I'll go up in the attic." "It's not an attic." "Miranda calls it a loft." "OK." "In the loft." "Kerim, stop that!" "None of that!" "Did he hurt you?" "We can both go." "Sure!" "You one night, him the other." "Why are you such a pest?" "What did he say?" "What's he want?" "Dunno." "What did he say, dammit?" "He says I pee in my pants at night." "You still wet the bed?" "It's because of the shulls." "Of what?" "The shulls." "The word is shells, not shulls." "I pee in bed, anyway." "Then Kerim sleeps on top, you below." "I want to sleep in the loft!" "Adis, no you can't!" "We'll put this plastic on it." "So it doesn't run down." "Go on up." "Now you can pee as much as you want." "There we go..." "Goddam kids!" "What if we don't find our aunt?" "We'll find her." "If not, you'll go to Italy to a refugee camp for kids." "You'll learn Italian tanning in the sun." "What?" "Can we take the dog?" "Sure!" "Will he be able to walk?" "Yes." "What if he can't?" "We'll see." "Go to bed." "Kerim below" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Sorry to bother you." "You're busy." "Don't step in the blood." "We'll find a solution." "If I keep them, they'll die of hunger." "I don't even have food for me." "Let alone when my family gets back!" "They got IDs, papers?" "Nothing." "Can't he talk?" "He's a deaf-mute." "That'll help get him into the children's ward." "We'll see about that." "Come on, kids." "There." "She was operated on Oct 22." "It went well." "On Nov 6 the Red Cross flew her to Frankfurt." "With her husband." "See for yourself." "So she's fine?" "Sorry?" "I said, so she's fine." "Possibly." "Your aunt's fine." "Shall we try getting them admitted?" "We want to go to our aunt!" "You decide, Hamza." "To our aunt's!" "What do I do?" "I'd like to put them on a plane." "We can't." "Try the Red Cross." "What do I do with them?" "You like planes?" "He'll win a prize in Germany when he's fitted with two bulbs for tail lights!" "Think he'll bark again?" "Sure, and in German!" "At your aunt's!" "Will they let us take him?" "He's yours, you saved him." "Kerim, go ahead." "Watch out for the hole!" "Holy shit!" "Will it work?" "Sure." "Look!" "Just grease the wheels every night." "Try it." "Look at him." "Adis, does it work?" "It does." "Look how his hind legs turn!" "If the plane doesn't work out, they can escape across the runway." "To freedom in Hrasnica." "But they're kids." "There's shooting there." "And not here?" "Is it too tight?" "What?" "That thing." "Ever seen Chetniks?" "Yes." "What are they like?" "They got no heads." "I saw it." "No heads?" "Just as I said." "They're all like that?" "Don't know, I only saw their legs." "Why not the rest?" "I was too scared to look up." "Get ready, kids, we're going out." "Where to?" "You'll see..." "It'll be nice." "Will the dog be OK alone?" "Sure..." "Dress warmly, it's cold." "What'll we wear?" "Not that, you'll catch cold." "We've only got what we're wearing." "There's Miranda's clothes." "In that closet." "Take what you want." "If she was here she'd say..." "Dress them warmly." "In my sweaters." "Not that one!" "Let them choose." "Don't be stingy!" "Me, stingy?" "I'm doing it for you." "For me?" "Was I ever selfish?" "I didn't mean that, but later you'll say:" ""Where did that go?" "Or that?"" "Why'd you bring them here?" "I didn't bring them." "You crazy?" "They broke in." "Don't stare at me!" "Get dressed!" "Put on that scarf." "And that hat, too." "Let's go." "Where we going?" "Follow me, don't be scared." "Careful." "You'll soon see." "Watch it..." "Look!" "Ever seen so much light?" "How've they got so much electricity?" "The French get all they want." "From where?" "A generator." "Wow!" "That's the French." "Everything works!" "Now what do we do?" "We watch." "Can we get closer?" "Sure." "All the way to the fence." "Really lights things up!" "They got water too." "Where?" "There!" "Look how it runs." "So much water." "Look, Kerim, real water." "Running from a tap!" "Look!" "Do Chetniks shoot at them?" "Rarely." "Some day we'll live like that too." "Same as them?" "Sure." "Look!" "What will they have, by then?" "God knows!" "What did he ask?" "If they're people like us." "Of course." "But they're not Bosnians, they're French." "Can't they give us what they've got?" "If you give an arm, we Bosnians want a leg!" "They give to everyone, not to individuals." "They bring in tons of goods." "If we asked they'd give, but it's not the same." "And it's Xmas for them, they're celebrating." "Will we get things when it's our Xmas?" "Maybe." "Anyway, we celebrate every feast." "Kerim, can you hear when you dream?" "What did he say?" "He dreamt that big packages were parachuted in the yard." "But they rolled into the river." "He tried to catch them, but couldn't." "He lost a shoe in the water." "Then what?" "He dived in and almost drowned." "Drowned?" "When he came up, he heard the birds singing." "Then he can hear!" "Only in his dreams." "What do you dream of?" "Trains." "I dream of trains." "I see plains and mountains go by." "Electric lines that crisscross..." "Then the train goes in a tunnel." "Kerim, don't go in the water." "Adis!" "You see, I'm with these kids." "We're having fun!" "My respects, ma'am." "Where's daddy's little darling?" "Adis, Kerim, come here!" "Let me introduce you!" "This is my wife." "They're so cute." "I'm Adis." "And what's your name?" "He's a deaf-mute." "A drink?" "Some fruit juice." "Look up there." "See that?" "That parachutist?" "He's good, eh?" "Would you dare do that?" "You'd be scared?" "No." "Look at him." "What's it like down there?" "Down where?" "Girls..." "You care about that?" "He says he knows, but doesn't." "He's bragging." "I'm no expert." "Or I wouldn't have become a poet." "But you know more than us." "Maybe..." "What do you think?" "He says it's like two lines... with another in the middle." "And you?" "It's a circle with a thing on the sides." "Tell us what it's like." "Ask those girls!" "They may show you." "You crazy today?" "Watch out, Hamza!" "What's all the fuss?" "Let us enjoy this bombardment like all the others!" "Get up." "No, I'm dreaming." "Who cares!" "You're choking me." "Fireworks again!" "Run!" "Take that..." "Take it, dammit!" "OK, Hamza!" "Into the basement!" "Don't put your boots on here, do it below." "Take the dog, dammit!" "It's getting there..." "Better!" "Can you fix it?" "Yes." "Go see your mom." "I'll be right there." "Get down." "That was close." "It's hot." "Put them on." "Ivana, don't let him take his boots off." "You're deaf, so you're not scared." "He says he's scared, he feels it on his skin..." "Like air." "He sees people running and knows." "But he doesn't jump at every shell." "It's worse for him, not knowing what it's like." "He said something I don't get." "Can the wounded hear?" "He doesn't care." "Know what a real kiss is?" "Here in Sarajevo?" "Anywhere." "Do you know?" "I know how to practice." "How?" "You put a marble in a cup and push it with your tongue." "What counts is real kissing, not practicing!" "Is this where refugees get papers?" "Get in line." "I'm waiting too and I'm frozen." "Next!" "We can't help." "Take 'em back where you got 'em." "I didn't get them!" "Now they're your kids!" "No, they're refugees." "It's a job for you." "No, all the planes are grounded." "The airport's closed." "Get that into your head." "It's not our fault." "Is it my fault?" "There's a war on, dammit." "As if I didn't know!" "Easy does it." "Stop it, Adis." "Kerim!" "Adis!" "What's up?" "You'll break your necks!" "Any cigarettes?" "How much is liquor?" "100 marks." "What did he say?" "Why ask prices if you don't buy?" "I don't have a penny." "What's he say?" "Why ask if you can't buy?" "So I'll know how much I'm short." "A man has to know things!" "Sure." "How many smokes for the hairdryer?" "It works?" "Yes." "I'll give you a pack." "Can we have a tin of meat?" "No way!" "Even if you had 3 hairdryers." "We'll find some elsewhere." "No problem." "We need cigarettes." "I've none left, ma'am." "I just can't do it, Hamza." "Do it for the kids." "They have no one here." "A minute with Germany." "You can do it!" "It's a mess, here." "Half our men are dead." "The Chetniks are advancing." "Try, I don't know what to do with them." "That's up to you." "Come back Thursday." "Or Friday." "Can I call my family in Croatia?" "Sure you can." "Nothing here." "Just peppers in oil." "Where can it be?" "She has lots of stashes." "Full of pasta, all kinds of things." "Nothing." "I'll look one more time." "Only rags." "Let's try there." "He found something." "What is it?" "Open it dammit!" "Candles." "They're useful too." "The moths ate everything." "There were soup cubes behind here." "I gave them to Gordana." "And the rice and lentils from the Aid group?" "Not a grain!" "All eaten." "The corned beef in the john?" "Corned beef... in the john." "Corned beef in the john!" "Follow me!" "Look at that!" "More!" "Is it good?" "Yes." "I'm not going to wash your pecker!" "Once more." "Wait." "Again!" "Once more, that's all!" "That's all." "Dry yourself." "You, too." "What's that?" "Another shull?" "I peed in my pants." "What?" "You're a big boy now!" "I was dreaming." "Nothing in dreams is as scary as what we're going through." "I'm not scared." "I dreamt we caught a bag of fish." "Then why did you pee?" "Out of joy!" "That's OK then." "Cry all you want." "You'll pee less." "I'm out of breath." "I used to go fishing, too." "With my daughter." "She loved it as a kid." "We'd leave at dawn, and spend all day by the river." "Always your daughter." "Don't you have a wife?" "Of course." "You never talk of her." "You love her?" "She's my wife." "I know." "I asked if you love her." "You miss her?" "When she's away..." "But when she's here..." "I don't know." "Depends." "It's like they're still here." "I know they're OK there, that they're not cold or hungry." "I'm glad they left." "Some couples who stayed are unhappy." "But I worry about them." "It's no fun being far away without a home." "I miss them." "After all, they're my family." "What are we to you?" "Let me see..." "A sort of burden." "I'm joking." "You're a full-time job, my new family." "This way." "Along the river." "Give me your hand." "Watch out." "Step there." "Wait for us." "Yes." "Careful!" "Slowly." "Watch out, don't slip." "River's high." "We'll be fine over here." "They biting?" "Now we need 'em, there's no fish." "Not one!" "There must be fish." "Not one, I tell you." "Where have you dragged an old man like me?" "All because of a dream." "I didn't drag you here." "You said you used to fish here." "And there were fish." "We caught a good fry." "Fingerlicking good!" "I'm hungry." "Of course you are." "So am I." "Adis, run!" "Come back!" "They're shooting!" "This way!" "This way!" "Hurry!" "This way!" "The fish got away." "You can't bring kids here!" "You tired of living?" "They wanted to come." "No one stopped me." "How could I know?" "Where do you think you are?" "Didn't you see the Chetnik trenches?" "Right by the river!" "Weird guy." "What planet you from?" "Sarajevo." "We burn shoes." "They eat them!" "American shoes!" "Soup made of shoelaces!" "You hungry?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "Yeah, leave me alone." "If you'd kept that fish, I'd have roasted it." "What are you doing?" "My pigeons!" "Leave them alone!" "Thief!" "I'll teach you to steal my pigeons!" "Give it back, you bastard!" "Just you wait, dammit!" "Give me back that pigeon!" "Or I'II..." "Drop that pigeon!" "Look what he did to it!" "Grab the axe!" "What are you doing?" "Having fun!" "Leave that!" "Leave it alone, dammit!" "Break the branches." "Tear it up, Aziz!" "Stop shouting!" "Why are you shouting?" "Leave that birch tree!" "Drop dead!" "Leave it, goddamit!" "Shut up, you old hag!" "Leave that tree alone!" "There, that's it!" "Say good-bye to your tree." "I'm scared I'll wind up at the end of a rope." "Many have ended that way, here and everywhere." "Long are the days, long are the nights, long are the years without love, without the water of love," "without the air of love." "Without love." "To be sure, it's not the voice of reason." "It's no help or solution to anything." "But if I close my eyes, I see myself hanged." "You're right." "How ignorant I was of everything!" "From the very start, the devil led the dance!" "I'm shaking with fear." "I'll end up on the gallows." "What my soul couldn't face, what my heart didn't dare do, my body will do all by itself." "It's that poet!" "What an asshole!" "Without the light of love, without bread or water, without air." "You take one step and tumble into darkness." "Darkness." "One step and you tumble into darkness." "Into darkness." "That way it sounds fairly good." "But when I write it down, it evaporates." "I can't even write a letter." "See, kitty, what a lousy poet I've become." "Why write, anyway?" "No one cares about poetry!" "You think dogs kiss like in the movies?" "I don't know." "Some do, some don't." "Our dog... we'll teach him." "If it's good, OK." "If it's not, too bad!" "You're lucky, kitty..." "Don't scratch me!" "You're lucky." "So am I, really." "Because..." "If my wife was here, I know what she'd say..." "All you do is get drunk!" "You're just in time." "I can't find that pack of coffee." "Where did you hide it?" "Why do you do that?" "It'll destroy you." "Don't change the subject." "And I'm not drunk." "Just three little shots." "If there'd been more, I'd have drunk it." "Any of that booze left that's like cologne?" "No." "If there was, would you drink it?" "You can hardly stand!" "I can hardly stand?" "Yes." "Look." "Watch me!" "You see that, sweetie, see it?" "Who's that?" "Hamza?" "Why are you yelling?" "Come in, they're firing!" "You bet!" "Here we go again!" "What's going again?" "The fireworks!" "They're bombing the hill!" "Blasting the tanks!" "Who is?" "NATO, stupid!" "Sure isn't the Russians!" "Come out!" "You'll turn into mushrooms down there!" "Come in!" "You'll get shot!" "It's coming from the NATO forces." "What did he say?" "The hill's on fire!" "What NATO?" "Come inside!" "Shut up..." "Ask him what he can see." "Hamza, what else can you see?" "Can't you hear it?" "NATO's pounding their positions." "Blowing up everything!" "They're done for." "Tanks blown sky high!" "The snipers, too?" "Come out, let's celebrate!" "You were right." "The world's getting even!" "He's drunk as a skunk!" "Come in!" "Let's go out, too." "Thank God!" "Where are they?" "Welcome!" "What happened?" "Try to save a few things." "At least Miranda's." "Try to leave with those kids." "What's that?" "Just say you're with them." "Stop clowning!" "Stop pretending you're hanged!" "Take care of yourself!" "Damn you and your hanging!" "I wish we hadn't met!" "Stop hitting me, stupid!" "That hurts!" "It hurts, I tell you!" "Hamza, hurry!" "Another shell may come!" "I'll send the kids any way I can." "Is it working?" "Be patient..." "Will it work?" "Don't worry." "Why didn't you stay in touch with us?" "You hear?" "Why didn't you stay in touch?" "The phone doesn't work." "For those kids, it works!" "Can't you see that..." "You dare speak to me like that?" "I should apologize?" "I don't know where you are!" "You should have gotten a letter through!" "A message!" "But not a word." "You always get mad!" "We tried hundreds of times." "It's not easy." "You tried..." "Not easy..." "Nothing." "Everyone's fine here." "Take them to Hrasnica, Gino'll meet them there." "Watch out crossing the runway." "We should go faster." "No need, they can't see us." "Doesn't that Gino sell black-market food?" "I don't know." "How will I find him in Hrasnica?" "How will I recognize him?" "It's not a big city." "We'll ask." "Everyone knows everyone." "We just get the kids to Hrasnica." "Then Gino ships them to their family." "We get them across the runway." "I don't know, I'm worried." "They may steal our bikes." "There's no one around." "Come, I'll show you." "It's true, lots of people go by." "But they're in groups, you see them." "In daytime there's no one down there." "At night it's full of women, kids, black-marketers." "The UN cars pick them up and cart them back." "But some get across." "Where we're going, they shoot a lot, but if we're careful, we'll be OK." "See that first row of houses?" "That parking lot..." "All those wrecks?" "My house is behind that." "Before the runway?" "Yes." "How do we reach your house?" "Via the trenches." "See the guard house?" "Where?" "By that mound." "Don't lean out." "See it?" "They're friendly." "I know one of them." "You trust him?" "Who?" "This guy..." "Absolutely." "You're lucky to go abroad." "Where to?" "Hrasnica." "It's in Germany?" "No, across the runway." "Then it's easy." "How do you get across?" "My dad'll take you." "We used to live there." "Maybe we won't go." "When you've gone, I get the dog." "Sure, who else?" "What?" "We won't leave without him." "You can't take him." "We'll hide him." "Where?" "Anywhere." "Let's try here." "He'll need air." "Don't bother with that." "It's OK." "The little one cried." "Why?" "They want to stay." "Really?" "They don't want to go." "Where are they?" "By the container." "I'll be right back." "You only do things for those kids!" "Nothing for yourself." "What could I do?" "You could've left." "Others managed." "Where would I go?" "How would I live?" "We manage." "So could you." "Stop being so bossy." "Where are you?" "Did I force you to leave?" "You're with the crazies!" "Here folks are normal." "Where are those kids?" "Surprise!" "Let's get ready." "Why?" "I spoke to your aunt." "She's cured." "They expect you." "Pack your things, you're off to Germany." "What things?" "We've got nothing." "We'll find clothes at Marko's and a backpack for the food." "You coming?" "You go first." "I'll join you later." "And the dog?" "We'll see later." "First let's celebrate." "Put me down." "Why?" "Let go of me." "What's going on?" "Peed in your pants again?" "No." "Come on, don't cry!" "Look at him!" "Let's check your pants." "Let's go celebrate!" "Here." "I packed some." "Pack some more." "Didn't we say we'd celebrate?" "Let's sing!" "We're late." "Don't just sit there." "Take good care." "I'll bring you the dog." "Don't ring your bell." "We're close." "Is it here?" "Yes, stop." "Get down..." "Come this way." "Go ahead." "Slowly..." "Duck." "Quiet." "Stay low." "Through the garage." "Faster, through here." "Hi!" "Where's Sena?" "Over there." "Thanks." "Where?" "Over there." "Where are you two going?" "Wait!" "Let me through." "Let's find Sena." "Stay low!" "Faster." "Hold on to him..." "Poor Kerim can't hear." "There you are, man." "Get up there." "Not there, here." "I'm with these kids." "How are you?" "And your wife and kids?" "They're in Switzerland." "Then they go to the USA, on a refugee Aid plan." "Been home?" "Rarely." "There's nothing left." "Come here." "Look." "Nothing left of my place." "I get married on Saturday." "What?" "Yes, I'm getting married." "It's impossible to cross there." "Impossible?" "..." "You tell him." "Our place is empty." "You just have to run." "We'll run!" "There's no cover." "You'll get killed right away." "Now's the time to go!" "Sure!" "Let's go!" "Get married or she'll find someone there!" "For sure." "Adis..." "I won't wait forever!" "Take care!" "I lost my hat!" "Kerim!" "I never got to say good-bye to the kids..." "Faster!" "What is it?" "Duck!" "See where the kids are!" "Leave me alone!" "Where's Adis?" "There's no more room here." "No more room?" "The cemetery's full." "How?" "Can't you see?" "It's all full." "The cemetery, the parks, the stadium, the gardens..." "I have someone to bury." "I know...but there's no room." "What do you do here?" "I used to be a gravedigger." "Used to be?" "What do you do now?" "Nothing." "I'm not too sure." "Is there another place?" "No." "There's no room, no gravediggers, no dead." "Everyone's dead." "The only place left to bury him is there... beside the path." "Nothing more can happen to me, nothing good or bad." "Like a good soldier, counting the days that follow each other, dull, meaningless." "Let's accept it and say it quietly." "Death will take everything from me:" "my flesh and bones, the pencil on the table, my knowledge, my soul, the painting on the wall, the music that lights up the room, the tears, the fears, the air laden with pollen." "And after that: darkness, darkness, darkness..."