It has been 8 years since then, and my own experience of going back was so intense, that no words were sufficient enough to describe it. It was powerful and sad and angry, and it made me start asking questions: What actually happened in Banja Luka? What happened to the people? If my reunion with the past was so intense, how was it for others? Did they feel the same?

My father going back provided a perfect opportunity to find the answers.

I went with him with the full intent to make a film about people’s experiences of going back. Once we got there, I realized that people were having these experiences because of what happened to them and this city during the war; and in order to understand it fully, I would have to dig deeper and uncover their past.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees called Banja Luka region “the worst place in Bosnia in terms of human rights abuses.” And yet, no one outside of Banja Luka knows the story.

This film is my testament to what happened.