Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in "no man's land," a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot and a fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a spring-loaded bomb set to explode beneath him if he moves. When a U.N. peacekeeping officer tries to neutralize the situation, the press gets wind of the incident and it turns into an international news story. The absurdity of their situation would be comical if it didn't have such dire consequences.