Europe, 1994. Not the Cold War, not the Millenium. Not the recession, not the tech boom. Not waiting, not knowing. The besieged anti-roads movement in London is as its zenith as is the lethal smuggling in the new Czech Republic. These worlds in the margins will collide in the only reality available – Sarajevo and the hills of Bosnia where patience has just run out.
Europe, 1994. Not the Cold War, not the Millenium. Not the recession, not the tech boom. Not waiting, not knowing.
The besieged anti-roads movement in London is at its zenith as is the lethal smuggling in the new Czech Republic. These worlds in the margins will collide in the only reality available – Sarajevo and the hills of Bosnia where patience has just run out.
Mykhailo Perekhrest is a Ukrainian veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. As the floodgates of change opened up across Eastern Europe he found himself washed up against the Czech-German border, smuggling goods. Its a predictable business, but Mykhailo doesn’t know that his mercurial boss will bring into being a chain of events that will take him across Bohemia and into the Bosnian war-zone.
Priya Auclair is a London pub manager by day and an activist by night. She and her CeSa movement are always a step ahead of the Metropolitan police until she falls for a security guard. When it all gets too much she takes a break in the Czech Republic – but this move places her directly in the path of Mykhailo and his ambitions.
By the mid-1990s Europe was still in flux. Half of the population was emerging from austere communism and social norms were constantly being redefined – but, as the bloody war in Bosnia reminded, deciding when to be partisan to one’s beliefs and when to let go is a certain art.
