Hello, where is your life taking you? Did you expect to end up where you are now?

My name is Arsev Kapadia and welcome to Detours, a five-part series from BBC World Service

in collaboration with Sundance Institute.

I'm a documentary film director, I directed Sena, Amy and Diego Maradonna.

I'm interested in outsiders, characters, personal stories from around the world.

In this series we'll be meeting Greeks sending dead relatives over the mountains to Bulgaria.

Wild elephants forced off their feeding pass in Assam, India, people on the move from Africa seeking better lives than the USA,

and a young Rohingya man stuck on an island in the Pacific.

But first, how do you end up writing fake news for a living? Come to Vallus in

Macedonia. Here's David Borrenstein with Detors episode one.

Doctor Fake News. A lot of people have had jobs that feel like a detour from their life's path.

A lot of people have had jobs that feel like a detour from their life's path.

Work that doesn't have much connection to the five-year plan.

Elena Dimitrievo is a medical student in Macedonia. To pay her tuition she found work making news articles.

Here she is on the job, talking with a colleague.

But these are really sensitive issues in people's lives and it feels wrong.

You want money, you want clicks, you want revenue, but how do you achieve this?

You need to think deeply.

Find a topic, arouses fearing people.

That sounds dirty.

You think you are the only person working on this you just a drop an ocean nothing more.

This job that Elena took was in her hometown, Vealous Macedonia, a place that's been

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