In her extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years ago, to explore the border Bulgaria shares with Turkey and Greece.
When she was a child, the border zone was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, but in fact it was swarmed with soldiers and spies.
In an exclusive interview for SBS Radio, Kapka remembers playing on the beach on holidays to a Black Sea resort in Bulgaria only miles from a bristling electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward toward the enemy, to so called “citizens of the totalitarian regime”.
