Eteri (mother, 30 years old): “My beloved child Ilia is sick! Because of constant hunger, I feel like he’s losing interest in life! It hurts me so much! He’s starting to develop a severe mental illness. He’s talking more and more about death! And he’s just a child! He shouldn’t even know that word. A single visit to the doctor costs 700 lari”. I’m ready to give my life just to see my children fully fed and without stomach pains even once. They are my everything! How can it be that this little angel, Eva, came into this world only to go hungry all the time? Her stomach hurts so much from hunger that she can’t even sleep!” This is food for a day for six people! Even during the war with the fascists, people weren’t fed like this! This is the daily ration for four children and their two parents! The key is to divide the egg into six parts so that no one feels left out!

Even at Christmas they will be hungry and cold. When delicious smell of roasted piglet and fresh pastries comes from their neighbors, they will just take some bread, close their eyes and imagine how delicious it is … They are used to it, they always do like that.
One can endure hunger and cold… But what then? Who will these children be when they grow up? What will they become if they don’t have any childhood?

3-year-old Tamar greets us with these words, not understanding why all this is happening … She is still too little to realize in what terrible conditions she lives. She is afraid that the house, or rather what she calls her house, may collapse at any moment and bury the people living there alive …

“A year of nightmare and horror. I saved the life of little Soso, but now I am completely exhausted. Look into his eyes, and you will see the love of whole Georgia. Oh, and here is Gabriel (3-year- old), he helps a 75-year-old grandmother and grandfather.

In the house where the family lives there is a smell of terrible poverty: Rotten walls, rusty beds, torn clothes, dampness.