Keral Pervanic is a 31-year-old Bosnian refugeee who arrived in the UK at the beginning of 1993. He had survived seven months of brutaility, tragedy and hunger in two prison camps. On his escape to London, he won a place at University and gained an MA in English literature. This text is the first-hand record of an ordinary Bosnian citizen who has endured one of the bleakest chapters in the history of Europe.