A Song Over the Low Wall
An aging Mostar musician watches his young neighbor water her roses every evening and writes her a song, but she never takes out her earbuds.
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An aging Mostar musician watches his young neighbor water her roses every evening and writes her a song, but she never takes out her earbuds.
When the housekeeper says his wife and best friend have deceived him for years and his son may not be his, gentle Sadik from Tuzla loses it all in an afternoon.
At the Bijeljina market old Blagoje picks up a piece of twine, and by evening half of Semberija is watching a clip of him supposedly taking a wallet.
One June night by the Miljacka, a lonely translator rescues a young stranger from a pushy driver, and she forbids him only one thing: falling in love with her.
Each time they sledded down the hill on Jahorina, Isidora heard two words in the wind, but she never found out who had spoken them.
All winter a conductor on the Neretva canyon line watches two commuters who fight every morning over one window seat and never over anything that matters.
At nineteen Dora sent her sister's guest from Sarajevo a confession five hours in the writing. Twelve years later, in Vienna, the same message comes to her.
In a rented flat in Neum, Amira finds the books, the jacket and the verses of a poet she does not know. In three weeks she falls for a man she has never seen.
On a rainy weekend at a villa above Sarajevo, an engineer from Tuzla announces that the new smart speaker has learned to talk. The guests laugh until it does.
Zvonko Bagarić brought half of Livno to court to hear how his wife betrayed him. Božena denied nothing. She only asked that one question be put to him.
On a record her grandmother hid in a wardrobe, Elmira finds a song with her grandmother's name, and the only man who knows its tune is the singer's grandson.
Mithat loves a woman who meets him only in odd places, and then one rainy afternoon he sees her let herself into a stranger's house with her own key.
Vukašin follows his wife to a building in Borik and crawls under the bed in the wrong apartment, where a young man in a red scarf is already waiting.
On the steps in Kovači, Lidija is stopped by a woman who claims to be her lover's former girlfriend, and from that day on she asks for more and more.
A video of a Brčko folk ensemble gathers hearts all day, and in two seconds beside the second to last row Sanela sees what nobody else can see.
While Strahinja drives a truck across Germany, Jagoda leaves for Istanbul with a man who talks of the sea. He takes the dog, since her brothers will not come.
Zineta runs a student house above Koševo and sees everything that happens in it. When her daughter grows close to the oldest lodger, she lets it ripen.
Sixteen years after he vanished from her life, handsome Tahir rings at the house in Vratnik again, and Aunt Rejhana has been dusting the piano since lunch.
Her husband is asleep by nine, and every Wednesday at midnight Danica plays a quiz with strangers. One of them keeps writing to her after the quiz ends.
Sumeja types menus for an eatery in Bistrik in exchange for lunch, and the spring menu arrives just as she has gone two weeks without a word from her fiancé.
At a Sarajevo wedding the groom's mother forgets the microphone still clipped to her lapel, and a thousand relatives abroad hear what she thinks of the bride.
Eleven steps and twenty-eight years of silence divide two burek shops on Bravadžiluk, until one owner's daughter is left alone with dough that keeps tearing.
Dalila takes the stairs down as Faris rides the elevator up, so for two months two Zenica radio hosts talk only through sticky notes and the last song.
At nineteen Muamer spends a whole summer by the hedge of the villa next door in Ilidža, in love with a woman everyone sighs over, who waits for someone else.
In Vienna a medical student from Maglaj falls for a gardener who knows two names for every plant, while his mother's letters keep ending the same way.
For a Banja Luka choir's anniversary, the conductor pairs a quiet retired teacher with a loud former train driver in a duet no one has sung for thirty years.
A singer and a photographer work the same weddings across Bosnia all summer, and the only time they have for each other belongs to other couples.
An hour after finding his wife with the neighbor, Sakib is choosing a hidden camera in a Zenica shop, but the salesman has far too much to say.
Jealous Elvedin sets up an anonymous advice page for women, and that is exactly where his wife confesses that a man comes to her every night.
Their father left the house in Trebinje to three children who cannot stand one another, on one condition: for a month they must sleep under one roof.