In the not-too-distant future, two border guards in a barren wasteland pass a long night's watch by spinning a tale set in the “halcyon days” of their civil war. This story plays out before our eyes. Two young women -- bold Jelena and her shy admirer, Hika -- will soon be on opposite sides of a war fueled by religious and ethnic hatred. The two meet a pair of soldiers in a bar celebrating one last night of freedom before they deploy. This meeting ends unexpectedly in violence. The two women must separate and flee. Jelena assumes the identity of a male soldier to escape, and she ends up fighting for the brutal regime. Hika struggles to maintain her identity and sanity as a refugee and a prisoner. When the two women are reunited at last, the cost of their survival is devastatingly clear.

The original version of this play about women, war, identity, and ethnic cleansing was written as a response to the Bosnian War, and was based on research and interviews.