Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)

Aida is working as a translator when the Bosnian war forces the evacuation of the "safe haven" city of Srebenica, where she, her husband, and her two children live. Aida has some pull and works frantically to get her family inside a UN facility, even though it's over capacity and thousands of desperate and frightened people are stuck outside. But it's soon clear that "inside" isn't enough and that Aida will have to repeatedly craft new ways to keep her husband and two adult sons safe.

It's incredible that I knew nothing about this true-life atrocity (though this is a fictional account). We see humanity at is worst, personified not only by the callous invaders, but by the UN personnel who were unwilling to stand up to the oppressors. It's very hard to watch: devastating, brutal and exhausting.

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