Two adult friends make each other a promise: If they survive the hell of Bosnia, they will tell the world of the atrocities they have seen and suffered. Both women were raped in a camp in northwest Bosnia, and South African sociologist Mandy Jacobson and human rights lawyer Karmen Jelinčić focus on their stories in this documentary. What started out as a struggle against the reticence of women in the camps to tell their stories, became a search for justice in the world outside Bosnia. The film adds urgency to demands that the perpetrators not go unpunished, and that rape be acknowledged as a war crime.

Mandy Jacobson was born and raised in South Africa and holds a Masters Degree in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics. A resident of New York City, she founded her own production company, Bowery Productions. For the past five years she has produced short films and music videos for director Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain). Her interests in advocacy and media led her to found and educational video series, Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Borders: Learning from Youth, in collaboration with the UN Department of Public Information and the NGO Forum on Women, which was shown at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She has numerous projects in development, including two feature scripts and one documentary drama.

Karmen Jelinčić holds a Masters Degree in International Human Rights Advocacy from Columbia University`s Tisch School of the Arts. She was born in Croatia and raised in the United States. Since 1991, she has been actively involved in advocacy efforts here and abroad, in response to rape as a war crime, and other violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia. Her past film-making credits include Someone Stole the Baby, a video documentary about a veteran Soho tap dancer and her efforts to bring the original dance into the 1990s.

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