In late June 2014, at the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne, Solomon Birnbaum, a secular Jewish Senator from Vienna, delivers a keynote address near the site of the crime, in Sarajevo. In it he assails the continuing political deadlock in Bosnia and Herzegovina and poses the question what the world has really learned since the start of World War I. Soon after, Birnbaum gets kidnapped. Other kidnappings follow and journalist Alois Hofer and his Bosnian and US colleagues Emir and Stanley, have to report a rapid succession of political...