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Belfast - we see a tragic city where hatred and violence have become a way of life. Yet for all that it is a city where hope survives where ordinary people, often in extraordinary situations, live their lives.Here Trevor Barnes shows us the city behind the headlines and records the experiences of its inhabitants - their courage, their humour, their surviving vision of a better world. They tell of the tensions which have shaped them, the wounds which have scarred them, but most of all of the beliefs which have strengthened them. Against heavy odds, it is a picture of hope for people in a divided city.