Lado was two years old when he first said “mom!” Nino has been waiting for twenty-three years to hear that word again. But Lado’s condition is getting worse every day…

“Lado, call me: “Mommy”. My son, my boy! I’m praying for this day and night! – Nino says to her 25-year-old son, who sits on her knees, and she caresses him like a baby. – I pray to God that his condition improves at least a little bit, so that he can move, pronounce some words, but … We roll back. How can we deal with this insidious disease called cerebral palsy with the meager capabilities and means we have?

“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.

Lord, there’s no way out from this nightmare! Torture can start at any moment. Eliso suffers terrible convulsions while she tries to call an ambulance. If she doesn’t manage to call them, she will die. If the coma lasts more than half an hour and her son does not have time to get home, then… This is just one of the nightmares… There are so many of them in the life of this family that you don’t know where to start from.

Levan went to the wedding to Lanchkhuti. He was young, and handsome, and cheerful. He was a second-year university student – 18 years old. When else one is so eager to enjoy life? And then at night, acquaintances came to his mother Olya: “Olya, don’t worry now, we must tell you something. Levan…” – “Oh, what are these people saying! Shut up, shut up! It’s not true, no way! Are you trying to kill me?! What happened to her Levan? Where to go, why?!

There are thousands of unfortunate people like her all over Georgia… These are women who fight cancer with their bare hands, with no funds, without any support. Women who were left alone, and now they have to choose – to be strong and fight to the end or give up and die in agony.

For 13 years she has been chained to the bed, which has become her whole world. There is no way back from this world, it is impossible to get out from there! She is 59 now. Album with her photographs is the only thing that reminds her that she is alive and that she once lived. “Can anyone believe that just a few years ago I walked all over Georgia with a backpack? That I was beautiful too and enjoyed every day? No one can! Even I can hardly believe that.”