Maja Salkić

편찮으신 할머니와 살고 있는 고아 소년 파루크는 주로 고철 조각을 모으거나 사소한 범죄들을 저지르며 매일을 보낸다. 어느 날 그는 정치권력을 가진 부유한 집안의 소심한 십대 소녀 모나를 만나게 된다. 모나는 더 이상 견딜 수 없을 정도로 지독한 집에서 뛰쳐나오기를 꿈꾸고, 피난처를 찾는다. 그러다 그녀와는 전혀 다른 세상에서 온 파루크에게 마음을 열게 된다.

Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.

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.