Haris Sarvan

에스마는 딸 사라를 혼자 키우고 있다. 그녀는 딸의 수학여행 경비를 벌기 위해 시내의 나이트 클럽에 웨이트리스로 취직을 해야 할 정도로 고달픈 삶을 살고 있다. 하지만 자신이 상이용사의 딸이라고 철석같이 믿고 있는 사라는 전사자 가족에게 수학여행 경비가 면제된다는 얘기를 듣고 엄마에게 아버지의 전사증명서를 받아오자고 한다. 에스마는 진실을 말해줄 수 없어 망설이지만 결국 사라가 출생의 비밀을 알게 되고 모녀는 갈등한다.

Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.

At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wanders into the real world of Sarajevo, the world that is ruled by post-war chaos, misery and poverty and becomes an ideal target for two corrupted policemen who wish to "help" him: they plant the kidnapped girl on him.