Did you know that if you do not eat for a very long time, then your tummy starts to rumble? Sometimes it rumbles so loud that even the neighbors can hear it. Did you know that to stop rumbling, you need to lie on your stomach and hug a teddy bear? Try it! Mariam, 8, and Anano, 7, say it helps. That is how they lay, trying to pacify the “rumbling tummy”.

They are afraid of their house, they are afraid that the roof, which they could not fix after the fire, will collapse on their heads. They miraculously managed to escape from the fire, but they will certainly die under their roof. “It will probably bring relief to many people,” – Gulnazi says. There is no irony in her words. She really thinks so. She also thinks that their family is superfluous, because no one cares about them.

“Come to eat!” – these are the most terrible words in life for 8-year-old Gio and 3-year-old Gaby… The mouth starts to feel so disgusting that it immediately makes you sick… Oh, these damned noodles never end!

Mom Tamara and her seven-year-old son Gabriel are alone in the entire world. Their dad has been gone for six years now: he killed himself because of boundless poverty and grief… They have no relatives either, there is nowhere to seek for help, there is no one to hope for. All that remains is to be strong, survive and pray to God. So they do, but they have no strength left at all.

“Let’s go, I’ll show you a hole! You know, I almost died there? It grabbed my leg, and I screamed: “A-ah-ah!” But my mother managed to grab me, otherwise it would have eaten me!” – baby Niniko drags me by the hand. She wants to show me some sinister hole. “Just look, be careful, it can grab you too,” – the baby warns me.

– Mother Nino says without hiding her tears.
– Mom, the holiday is coming soon, don’t cry, – Goderdzi soothes her. And Barbara strokes her mother on the head.
It’s coming soon… – sighs Nino.