Harrison Lloyd , a Pulitzer Prize-winning '' Newsweek '' photojournalist , travels on his last assignment to the former Yugoslavia in 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence . While there , he is presumed to have been killed in a building collapse . His wife travels to the region to find him , believing him to be in the city of Vukovar . Travelling through the war-torn landscape , she arrives in the city , and bears witness to the massacre which took place there . Back home , Harrison 's son Cesar cares for his father 's flowers in their greenhouse
massacre which took place there
Vukovar massacre
Harrison's Flowers