After that, she suffered hunger, cold, the filth of the Blace refugee camp at the border, followed by a hurried evacuation in the night. Holding her three children close, she said everything she had left in the rush was lost. She plans to go to Sweden, where her sister lives, but not until she finds her husband. The luckier refugees have made contact with relatives in Macedonia, but to leave the camp, built in a valley and guarded by aggressive Macedonian soldiers, they have to escape over the wire fence. He slept on the road for two nights.
People stay with their families, talking little, still in shock.
The women sit on blankets or cardboard in the tents, the children play on the ground. Young people talk to one another through the wire fence.