The breakup of Yugoslavia gets a revisionist retelling here, arguing that the wars of the 1990s were not an inevitable explosion of ancient ethnic hatreds but the result of choices made in Washington, Bonn, and Brussels. Interviews with diplomats, generals, and journalists who covered the collapse sit alongside archival news footage of Sarajevo under siege and the diplomatic maneuvering that preceded NATO's bombing campaign. The film traces how German recognition of Croatia and Slovenia, US backing for Bosnian and Croatian forces, and Western media coverage shaped the conflict's course, and it questions the official narrative that cast Serbia as the sole aggressor. Figures like Slobodan Milosevic and the various Western officials who dealt with him appear through period footage, with the film building its case that alternative paths existed at several points before war broke out. It is an openly argumentative film, built to challenge the standard account of the Balkan wars rather than summarize it.