Senada is 31 and she lives in Poljice neighborhood in Lukavac municipality with her partner and two daughters. She is pregnant with her third child for approximately five months. Since she didn’t have health insurance, she does not go to the doctor’s. When she started bleeding, she goes to the hospital. The doctor told Senada that she needs an emergency surgery and she needs to pay 500 EUR. Without a health insurance card and without money, Senada returns home.
It's all very intimate and convincing ... and the performances are naturalistic throughout. But there's nothing here we haven't seen before.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
22 Apr 2014
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Robust and compassionate.
– Stephen Dalton,
Hollywood Reporter,
2 May 2014
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As matter-of-fact as its mouthful of a title, Danis Tanovic's touching social-realist drama An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker offers a modest, low-key glimpse into the struggles of an impoverished Roma family.