Wij/Zij

On 1st September 2004, 1200 schoolchildren and their parents and teachers were held hostage by a group of armed terrorists in a small town in the Caucasus. It lasted three days and ended in utter chaos. The whole world was shocked that the very worst evil (the terrorist) had chosen the very greatest good (a group of children) as their victims.

Wij/Zij (Us/Them) presents two characters who look back at those three days. They do so with an almost scientific precision, in an attempt to grasp events which in their extreme complexity and horror were utterly beyond comprehension.

Wij/Zij is not an account of this terrible drama, but is about the entirely individual way children cope with extreme situations. With humour and a matter-of-fact approach it contrasts the views of a boy and a girl with those of adults.