Walking the thin line of life

5 nurses have paid dearly for practising an altruistic profession in a country where altruism is no more than a necessary evil...Where altruistic people are misunderstood and looked upon as if they were from Mars...Where altruistic people are easy scape goats, scape goats for past national defeats and humiliation. One such humiliation was a Scottish one that cost lots of innocent lives plus Libya 4billion dollars - exactly the amount that a chichi court in Tripoli has asked for, for the nurses collective bail that is. A last attempt at Gaddafi-esque national redemption?
Meanwhile an aged and bitterly poor mother back in Bulgaria asks why she let her daughter go on a year's work placement to a country, just like any other, where well-meaning people are growing old prematurely while waiting for their Kafkaesque sentences.