The film stars Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nušević, Kerry Fox, Goran Višnjić, James Nesbitt, and Emily Lloyd.

The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from Ljubica Ivezic, an orphanage located on the front lines, in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions.

In the final harassment, armed Chetniks halt the bus, select and forcibly disembark the Bosnian Serb orphans, identifying them through their first names, and take them away on their lorry, as they refuse to let them go to the West.

Henderson, who didn't know that her mother was living, returns to Sarajevo, now driven not only by the siege but also by organised crime, and seeks out Risto, who has become a Bosnian soldier.

In the middle of the movie, Harun, a cellist friend of Risto, says that he would play a concert on the streets of Sarajevo once it is designated the worst place on Earth.

The movie ends with Harun holding a "concert of peace" on a hill overlooking Sarajevo, playing his cello to hundreds of Sarajevans.

"Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin is played against scenes of the siege of Sarajevo, with people being wounded by bombs, blood everywhere on the streets, etc.

The House of Love's "Shine On" (Creation, 1987) and Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored" (Silvertone, 1989) are among the English independent rock classics featured in contrast to the dark barbarism affecting the people of Sarajevo.

[6] Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle praised the film for "[b]ring[ing] up some hard questions about the sheer impossibility of foreign correspondents remaining true to their journalistic neutrality in a war zone".

[8] In a more negative review, Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "However closely they mirror the real experience of Mr. Nicholson and others, some of the shocks here are too sadly predictable".

[9] A similar opinion was shared by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who wrote that "Too often we sense that the actors are drifting and the story is at sea", in an "air of improvisation" that "combines fact and fiction", giving the film a two-star review.