Vlado Petric, a homicide detective in Sarajevo, joins his family in Berlin, where he is recruited by Calvin Pine, an American investigator for the war crimes tribunal at The Hague, to join a search mission back in his homeland.
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
Chronicles the Bosnian War and the horrific siege of Sarajevo as seen through the eyes of regular citizens living on Logavina Street, who struggled with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings.
Fourteen-year-old Alma narrates the story of a group of teenage war orphans who live at Hotel Sarajevo for more than a year scavenging for their needs.
