Premeditated Murder

Men women and war Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s during Serbias war with Croatia shes making a book of her grandmothers diaries from the end of World War II She takes up with Bogdan a young soldier recovering from war wounds He helps her with her grandmothers story a tragic triangle involving her effete and welleducated husband and an uneducated major a Chekist who has perhaps the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmothers friend As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather the Chekist or the husband Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front Jelena pleads duty calls