“Dad does not care that I live on 1 lari and 30 tetri a day. He promised to always be with me, but he left me and my mother,” – says Alex. – “I haven’t come up yet with how to save my family. But I can quit school after 9th grade and become a scavenger.”
His mom Elena, young and beautiful, got suddenly paralyzed by two microstrokes. She can’t work. His grandmother has senile dementia and heart attacks. The ambulances come to her all the time. Alex doesn’t think life is great. Water just drips from a single tap in the kitchen, and it takes ages to fill at least a glass with water. The shelves of the cupboards are empty – they already sold everything. The neighbors bring them food. Is anything beautiful about it? He got confused, lost hope.