Rosso is the detective inspector trying to find a brutal murderer in

the heart of a Balkan city ravaged by war. He has learnt to take each

day as it comes, with violence and death around every corner.

Luka is the local crime boss, intent on exploiting the misery of his

city's inhabitants while also providing the only means of defence they

have left.

Tanja is the young woman loved, and set up, by both men and faced with

an impossible conflict of loyalties.

Flett is the foreign reporter, a US citizen who hears and sees it all,

partially protected by his job, but like the others, sucked into the

mire that is Sarajevo, a battered but defiant capital torn apart by a

civilisation that has turned on itself.