A newly built apartment building in the front of Gyumri Governor’s office looked very nice and it seemed that all the inhabitants must finally found a refuge after the long post-earthquake years of darkness and cold… A new door was still a hope, but as soon one opens the door a dreadful picture and odor turns back into the old days of disaster and despair. A broken bed is the only place where Mrs. Lyuba spends her days a whole year round without leaving the room.

A rotten container dreadfully catches a sight and at first it is hard to imagine that a human being is able to survive in a pile of rusted iron. A room with adjourning kitchen-like area accommodates 6 people: a young couple with 4 children of 18,15,13 and 1.7 year-old children. Lack of bathroom made the picture more unbearable and walks to “shower” seemed a picture from the distant years of blockade.

The mother, young woman with a permanent flu and a man with amputated ankle grow up the kids with no basic conveniences and stable income.

A neat and light house seemed a place where an energetic and still young couple with grown-up children live a happily-after life. But that was unfortunately an illusion which immediately evaporates after one enters the distant room, where a 69-year old woman with swollen abdomen and hyper blood pension was confined to bed for over 6 years, alone, just in the company of her old books and her daughter-in-law’s few pieces of outdated furniture.

Ms. Roza, formerly a happy wife, mother of 5 children, a strong woman with almost 30-years of work experience in the former Soviet Gyumri sock factory became a senile and abandoned weak woman who has no one to be cared of.