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confined to bed for over 6 years, alone, just in the company of her old books and her daughter-in-law’s few pieces of outdated furniture.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.

…It was an ordinary apartment shared by an old couple for almost 26 years. We visited them on a random winter day. The fields in Amasia were all under white cover and everything was so pure and so clear there. The sky also has changed to white or perhaps it was the whiteness of earth that made it so. The air in the village was so light and there was a surprising peace in that still and icy-fresh air. Grandfather Arest and his old slim wife were waiting for us and as soon as we got in they greeted us as they would greet their lost relatives.