Grbavica is on the outskirts of Sarajevo, where the Yugoslav-Serbian army that besieged the city in the 1990s established a prisoner-of-war camp. In addition to men, there are also a large number of women detained here without the power to restrain chickens. The memory of massacre and rape alternated.
After the war, a single-parent family lived here, the mother and daughter, and the mother Esmacould not support the family life with meager government subsidies. The impact of the past violence still haunts Esma like a ghost, and she participates in group therapy at the local women's center every week. She told her daughter that her father had died in the war.
The 12-year-old daughterbit rebellious and boyish, and she knows little about her father's experience. The future tuition issue allows "father" to enter Sarah's life as a real existence for the first time. She must issue a certificate proving that her father is a "martyr", otherwise, she must pay the expensive full amount Tuition and fees. The mother told Sarah that it was difficult to issue the proof because the father's body was never found. The classmates began to laugh at Sarah for not being on the list of children of martyrs. Sarah, who was already confused, became more irritable. She knew that her mother had paid her tuition secretly. A mother-daughter battle broke out. Sarah pressed her mother for all the truth. Under her daughter’s aggressive quarrel, Esma could no longer restrain herself. She cruelly told her daughter and the truth. Sarah is a Serbian Muslim. "Prisoner of War" was born after being raped. Her father was not a hero. After Esma told her daughter the truth, she felt relaxed. For the first time, she really faced her bloody wound. Although the daughter Sarah was hurt, the closed and evasive window of the heart between the mother and daughter was opened, and a new, open-hearted relationship was established between the mother and daughter
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