When they showed Liana a pile of bones and blood and said – “This is your daughter – medicine is powerless here, you can only pray and ask God that Maka stay alive,” she learned all the prayers by heart in a few days and did not get up from her knees, praying to God to give her daughter for the second time.

“The same curse haunts everyone from our family – we are blind. Our eyes eventually dry out and become completely unusable. Unfortunately, there is no cure for this, and we are doomed to live in a darkness. As if we are alive, but already dead,” says 33-year-old Nika, a mountain man.

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!

Tea made a living room in a former public WC. One can do anything when he has nowhere to live with his three children. The taxi driver dropped them and their belongings off at night in an empty field near an abandoned building – as she asked – and hurried to leave. They can kill you and stab with a knife in such an abandoned place. And she crossed herself and stepped into this empty, dark building with baby Gabriel, five-year-old Shio, and nine-year-old Tekla.

“I am looking at myself and wondering, why was I born at all? I have not seen anything in my life, except for illness, pain, and hunger … Mom! It would be better if you had an abortion – you have not seen anything good from my father, right?! Why did you give birth to me, why?” – this is how Mary started our conversation and tears rushed streaming from her eyes.

“There is not a whole spot on me!” I suffered a heart attack three times, I had a stroke twice. Three times I was operated on my heart, four times – on my eyes. One of my eyes is good for nothing. The doctor said it withers – I’m waiting. And it hurts so much. The medications are expensive – I can not always buy them.