Young Drasko is happy selling flowers with his father in the Sarajevo marketplace, where people from every neighborhood and background have mingled for generations. Yet when war encroaches on their beloved city, everything changes. Suddenly Drasko must run the family flower stand alone.

The violence finds even this small corner of the city and Drasko feels the full weight of the war. But he also finds he feels something more when he witnesses an unlikely act of heroism, an act that helps Drasko—and the world—understand the power of beauty and kindness in the face of violence.

From the dust jacket