In the early 1970s, a writer they called Monk leads a band of cultural refugees from the radical 1960s into the wilds of southwest New Mexico, where they eventually found a religious community that first inspires and later inflames an entire valley. This is the age-old clash between religious faith and human lust, between a commitment to others and the commitment to art.

A gritty love story entangled in the vicious 1990s Balkans conflict, "Bosnia Country" follows two American journalists, Monk and Riley, as they cover an international peace convoy struggling to reach Sarajevo. Through the witness of its mere presence, the idealistic convoy, with its thousands of brave but quixotic souls from many nations, clashes with an ethnic and religious conflict more savage than most, much as Riley and Monk clash with each other. In a pensive moment, Monk muses that if he were a musician he "would write a damned old country love song, two-and-a-half minutes of heartache that would crack a million hearts across the land and somehow ease the burden of his own. Bosnia country."

G.I. Resister has to do with a nation so deeply cleaved by the ill-fated and unjust war in Vietnam that a generation later the United States has only just begun to heal. Perrin's story is a part of that, both in the hurt and the healing.