The film is based on a novella by the well-known Soviet writer who served at the front, Emmanuil Kazakevich "Two in the Steppe" and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov.
Post traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.