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After scene setting, with a newsreel about the Brotherhood and Unity (such irony runs throughout the film) tunnel first opened in the 1970s, most of the plot takes place 20 years later in the dilapidated and unfinished tunnel as the militia seek shelter from the Bosnian army. The main protagonist is Milan who, in pre-war years, ran a business with his Muslim mate. Its complex structure focuses on a band of Bosnian-Serb militia who, amongst other things, burn Muslim villages. The abomination of war is accentuated in civil war Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (original title translates better as Beautiful villages burn beautifully) covers the post-Yugoslavian war of the 1990s that foreshadowed the current ‘conflict’ between ‘the west’ and Muslims.