Director Jean-Luc Godard is among the speakers at a 2004 European book fair in Sarajevo, alongside literary luminaries such as Spaniard Juan Goytisolo, and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Two women question the guests about the Balkan War, the traces of which are still visible in Sarajevo, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the genocide of Native Americans and European Jews. While Judith Lerner, a journalist from Tel-Aviv, wants to shed light on the shadow side of history, Olga Brodsky, a Russian Jew, is consumed with dark thoughts of suicide and plans for action