Mirela, a forty-year-old Bosnian woman, lives in Rimini with her partner and two children. Driven by an unresolved past, she returns to Sarajevo, where she lived until the age of ten at the Dom Bjelave orphanage. Evacuated on a humanitarian convoy at the outbreak of the war, she now reunites with her childhood friends: Amela, her best friend, Branko, an almost brother-like figure, and others besides. Together they rediscover the city and the orphanage, now rebuilt, that once took her in. Initially reluctant and uncertain in her feelings towards the memory of her mother, Mirela feels an indefinable yet powerful sense of loss.
Her journey turns into a search for her mother, and for herself, leading her to the village where she was born, in Republika Srpska, to retrieve her birth certificate.
An uphill struggle, one of courage and reclaiming, to answer a false question: who legitimises my existence in the world, when I myself “feel like a flower, as if I came from the earth”? Through archive footage of besieged Sarajevo and intimate memories, the film weaves personal memory with the history of an entire people.
