Cardboard City

Cardboard City
follows the lives of two young teens—members of a Romani family. Saida
and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing
poverty in their informal settlement, spread out under a bridge in
Belgrade. Their dreams of escape and of leaving deplorable conditions
behind trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted
trumpeter and aspires to be a famous musician, but it proves challenging
to surmount the enormous barriers between his present situation and the
self-mastery and life of dignity he seeks.

Introducing young readers to the world of Eastern Europe’s Rom, Cardboard City is evocative of the virulent racism, injustice and inhumane conditions endured by this community to this very day.