This is the house of the Tskvitishvili family. People live here: father Otari, mother Natia and their two kids – three-year-old Gabriel and one-year-old Otari. In August, they are awaiting the birth of one more child – the long-awaited girl. Where will they put her to sleep? What will they put on her? What will they feed her? Mama Natia does not yet have answers to these simple questions. “I brought up two, God will help with the third child,” – she says.

“How is it possible: when you are hungry, your stomach hurts, and when you eat, it still hurts? – Nika asks and desperately adds: – Probably because I don’t eat every day.” I’m even afraid to ask the boy for how many days he hasn’t eaten. The eerie silence is broken by Nika: “I don’t even remember when the last time was I ate candy.”

Even when it’s hot, a chill creep over you from this dilapidated house. You hear moans and crying coming from there. Five people live in this unblessed house: four sisters and their common “child” – 29-year-old Giorgi. Well, they do not live there, but eke out a miserable existence. A sad fate befell all the inhabitants of this accursed house. They are alive and dead at the same time…

“My family is having a hard time. My mom is all alone in front of so many problems. I want to endure hunger, cold… I want to learn how to do without what is necessary for existence, but what I do not have… They tell me that I have matured, since I’m struggling like that… But what else is left to do?! I don’t want to bother my mother even more … Once, when I was younger, I put duct tape over my mouth to keep myself from crying out loud from hunger… I thought that no one would hear me then…” – these words of this smart girl broke our hearts. Lord, how is it possible that teenagers in Georgia talk about such things? They should have everything for a normal life, right?!

The building will be demolished… It will disappear soon. And the people living there, may disappear too. They have nowhere to go, no one is waiting for them. Not a single soul is behind them. If something happens to them, we will find out about it too late. Probably, on a payday, when Natia will not come to the store to pay off her debts.

Before going to bed, little Mariam prays that it doesn’t rain, so that she doesn’t wake up again in a wet bed. “Waking up in a wet bed when it’s cold, is not very pleasant… Don’t even try that,” she says.