"Blood and Honey's" story radiates out from a personal relationship between a man and woman, two Bosnians with different backgrounds who were just starting to form a romantic bond when it was still OK for them to do so.
Danijel (Goran Kostic) is a police officer with a Serbian background, while Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) is a Muslim artist who lives with her sister Lejla (Vanesa Glodjo) and her sister's baby. We see them enjoying a dance club date, and then the war intrudes and everything changes. Suddenly Ajla's apartment house is attacked by an armed Serbian paramilitary group that marches the men off, presumably to be executed, and takes the women to a compound where rape by soldiers is the rule. Even though his presence and his authority offer the possibility of protection, Ajla is horrified to find that Danijel, revealed to be the son of a Bosnian Serb general (Serbedzija), is a captain in this army.
"Blood and Honey" examines what happens to Danijel and Ajla over the course of all the years of the conflict as they try to find an equilibrium point that will balance their tricky emotional and sexual lives, considering the new power dynamics and the different way they view the political situation.
When she, for instance, screams, "Are we so terrible that we should be exterminated?" he replies, "It's politics, not murder." She answers, "It's murder for political gain."
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