Beso is 15 years old, and he has never stood on his feet. When it gets unbearably painful for him to sit in a wheelchair, he slides off it and crawls around the house. When he was a baby, he cried, but now he is a big boy and does not want to scare his mother.

“Be quiet, don’t talk too much, don’t make noise! I barely calmed Reziko – he cried all day! I think he has a sore throat. Or maybe his stomach hurts. He is so big, he is older than me, but he behaves like a baby,” – a serious girl Lizi meets me at the door and explains how to behave so as not to hurt Reziko, how to speak so that her brother does not burst into tears.

Giorgi was born eighteen months ago, and every day is a battlefield with death for him. Death does not want to retreat – and Giorgi does not give up either.

“I know what outcome awaits my son, but I can’t come to terms with this. I can’t just sit back and watch my son die!” – These harrowing words of the young mother Nestan break your heart. Six months ago, she lost her daughter, who suffered from convulsions and melted before her eyes. Since 2019, the unfortunate Nestan has been in hospitals – either at the door of the intensive care unit, or in the ward.

Mom: Doctors say my children will die! But how do they know that when there is God?! God gave a soul to all living things! So, my kids have it too! And only the Lord knows what will happen to them! All the beauty of this world is in their eyes!

Joseph (father): Of course, as a healthy man, I could go to Tbilisi or abroad to work and send money. But then my son will die! I know it for sure! He’s also with a soul, and he loves me very much! I feel it with all my heart… He won’t live a day without my care and love!