"In 1995 a dark episode in European history ended, the Bosnian War. Using three reportage comics, Joe Sacco paints a complex picture of Sarajevo at the end of the Bosnian War:
Neven, The Fixer, made a living as an arms dealer and bank robber before the war and served as a weapons expert and sniper in the Yugoslav army before working as a guide for journalists in Sarajevo. Thanks to Neven's help, Sacco succeeds in interviewing victims and perpetrators of the war.
Soba, on the other hand, is a depressive painter and musician, whose activity as a mine-layer on the front around Sarajevo haunts his dreams and who now wanders disoriented through the ruins of his life. Shortly before the end of the war in 1995, he took Sacco through the nightclubs and bars of Sarajevo, where the comic journalist came across a disaffected generation of war-disabled youth.
During Christmas with Karadzic, Joe Sacco and a radio reporter tried to get Radovan Karadzic, who is now accused as a war criminal, in front of a microphone. After an odyssey through the Serbian part of Bosnia, the two finally meet him in front of a church, of all places."
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