And while the horrors of war raged on, Miss Filipovic continued her diary. The handwritten notebook detailed her ordinary life, her reaction to the war, and her hopes and fears for the future. She dreamed of going to the park, playing with her friends as she used to. She wrote about hiding with her parents in the basement of their house, near the National Theatre in the centre of Sarajevo, and how her canary Cico died because they couldn't get enough food for him.