It is a typical love story, between a Croat woman Ana (Mirjana Joković) and a Serb man Toma (Boris Isaković), who marry one another with the blessing of both families right before the battle of Vukovar.

Divided, living through hell, they still hope that the horrors of war will stop and that their newborn baby will be able to have a fresh start.

[3] In December 1995, the Croatian delegation prevented the film from being screened at a United Nations conference, calling it Serbian "propaganda".

[6] In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden echoed the Shakespearean comparison while noting the film's "disturbing" portrayal of war and highlighting its anti-war premise.

[4] Writing for New York, Maureen Callahan stated that, although the film "isn't as technically accomplished or as seamlessly scripted as, say, Schindler's List, it is just as important and even more remarkable for its virtually real-time immediacy".