Trama

An independent documentary film. What happens to ordinary people after the war is over? This is what Leon Gerskovic was determined to find out when he returned to his homeland, what was once Yugoslavia. His journey took him and his team to Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. There he met invisible refugees of a forgotten war. This film captures people dealing with their own fears, prejudices, and hopes for the future--people who once believed that such tragedies and hardships could never happen to them. As Gerskovic witnesses physical and psychological displacement years after the fighting ended, he also re-lives his own painful history.

What happens to ordinary people after the war is over and the news cameras and aid workers have left? This is what Leon Gerskovic was determined to find out when he returned to his homeland -- what was once Yugoslavia. As he watched the news of Kosovo from the safety of his American living room, Gerskovic knew that he needed to go back to see how victims of earlier Balkan wars were coping. At the time, he had little idea of how much his own history would come back to haunt him.—Erica Ginsberg