Gist: A Sarajevo-set coming of ager, or rather, a self-declared “true” (as in ‘genuine’) coming-of-age story, in that it looks at the moment when we realize that we will cease to be someone’s child. Between Berina, who is 21, and her dying mother Jasna, a new, powerful hatred is born. Berina is a painter, and slowly the symbols go from her paintings into her life; people disappear, and only ghosts and signs of it and those that weren’t there remain. |