Echoes from Borderland

Just 140 Years ago no visa was required to enter any country. With increased border controls came discrimination. Today, each year more than 1 million people try to cross borders illegally, many of them fleeing war and persecution. Nahid, a determined 15-year-old girl from Afghanistan is stranded in the Bosnian border town of Velika Kladuša, where she meets Ferida, a 67-year-old Bosnian widow struggling with her own war-scarred past. Slowly, Nahid discovers that the cycle of war and loss connects her to this place at the fringes of the European Union in unexpected ways. The two women begin to recognize the echoes of their own losses in each other's experiences.