GRBAVICA is a story of contemporary Sarajevo: Esma's daughter Sara (12) is going on a class-trip. Believing her father to be a martyr- killed in a recent war, Sara is urging her mother to bring the certificate, so that she can get a discount for the class-trip. But Esma does not have the certificate. She is trying to protect her daughter and herself, by not telling the truth about Sara's birth.