Tell me mom (2001)

A sleeping boy on a bed in a room.

Rural landscape, summer - a river, a bank, a stone in the water.

A woman wakes up a boy, the boy wakes up with difficulty.

Children are running along a path to the river, a wooden two-story house can be seen in the background.

Children are running to the river bank, throwing off their clothes as they go.

A woman (social worker) is sitting at a table in her office, talking about the children she is in charge of, there is a cage on the table in the office, budgies are flying around.

Close-up - a group photo of children behind the glass of a cabinet.

A painted concrete wall - a blue heart with an arrow, etc.

A dog is sleeping on the couch, a panorama of the room, there is a mess around, dirt, things are scattered around.

A female social worker is speaking.

Close-up - a group black and white photo of children.

A female social worker is speaking, in the frame of the photo on the table, a cage with a parrot.

Close-up - a group black and white photo of children.

Young men in a room, sitting at a table, a guy playing the guitar, singing a prison song.

Panorama of a room in a penal colony, in the frame are made beds, nightstands, etc.

View from the window of the courtyard of the colony, in the frame are prisoners, a fence, barbed wire, a brick building.

Prisoners in the window.

Prisoners sitting by the fence.

Prisoners on the territory of the colony, entering the gate.

Close-up - a young guy in a black T-shirt.

Station, crossing, a freight train passes, on the ground near the railway tracks there is a spontaneous flea market, trade is underway.

Close-up - various goods on the ground, sellers are sitting under umbrellas.

One of the saleswomen talks about her joyless life.

Prison and prisoners.

A woman with a boy brings a parcel to the prison and talks on the intercom with a young prisoner.

The prison warden talks about the fate of the prisoner

St.

Petersburg.

Kazan Cathedral Square.

A boy is walking down the street.

His mother came to visit her son in a psychiatric clinic.

Another son, a boy of about 12, is swearing loudly at his mother and brother.

The head doctor of the psychiatric hospital explains to the young man that he can leave the hospital since he has recovered.

A cemetery, graves.

The grandmother of a difficult family with many children talks about the life of this family.

An alcoholic mother with shaking hands, a boy and a grandmother are eating soup in a dirty and shabby kitchen.

A neighbor, who came to visit a dirty apartment with things scattered everywhere, tells the alcoholic mother that the younger children will be in a foster family in America until they come of age.

Graffitied walls of an apartment building.