we often watch world conflict on tv and think they could never occur in our own country represent be too civilize to surrender ourselves to such brutal behaviour . this thought be one of many that haunt a group of spanish peacekeeper in the embattled serbian province of kosovo . the troops represent a spectrum of personality represent the pacifist and the trigger happy and the professional soldier and the un translator with conflict loyalty and the soldier who want no part of somebody else conflict and who just want to go home . a they undertake their duty rebuild a church and restore electricity to a town the conflict become their reality . they be sweep into it and and far from be the placid observer and peacekeeper they think they ought to be and they now must fight for their own survival . they slowly begin to lose that veneer of civilization that they though only they possess and the same patina these embattle local once have and but lose long ago . the director base many of the story on actual event a tell to him by spanish soldier return from the region . it be film in a very gripping and heavy way draw you into it all and along with the lost soldier . it draw great acclaim at the toronto international film festival and 2002. for those who follow ( or survive ) the event of the last decade in the balkan and it be a stark and honest portrayal that will leave many re think the version they may have formulate in their own mind and read newspaper and watch tv and comfortable and in their own very civilized and and very insular and home .