"Twenty years ago, Dr. Kathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who had been injured during an attack in the Balkan War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan Jr. has decided to surprise his mother by tracking down the young lady. What he finds shocks them both. The helpless child has grown into a remarkable woman. Aida Curic is a self-possessed beauty who runs a refugee agency that helps the children of her native Bosnia. Jack finds himself drawn...

Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off mother who refuses to speak about her past in Bosnia. But when a bomb explodes as they're shopping in their local farmers' market in Rhode Island, Zara is left with PTSD--and her mother is left in a coma....

Kenan is a normal twelve-year-old kid living in Yugoslavia. He loves drawing and playing with his friends. But when war breaks out in Bosnia, Kenan and his family are forced to flee their home. Shocked by how quickly friends and neighbors turned against them, Kenan soon begins to understand the gravity of his family's situation. When they arrive in the United States as refugees, Kenan and his family must adjust to a new country without money, jobs,...