[4] In the middle of the 1990s, Elena Pogrebizhskaya worked as news reporter at a national Russian TV station Channel 1.

When war broke out in the Balkans, Pogrebizhskaya and her news crew were present on both sides of the conflict, in Albania and in Serbia.

After Putin became president, Pogrebizhskaya left the news field because she decided that that work became too muddied.

Her rock group Butch [ru] recorded 4 albums, selling one hundred thousand discs.

The documentary shows lives of three children, Alexander, Nastya and Alexey, in an orphan boarding school in Moscow region.

[12] The movie got a wide response, even on a governmental level because it showed dramatic lives of orphans in asylum, while all the adults thought it were the best possible place for the children.

[13] Eventually, the film became one of the factors that led to a legislative reform related to the rights of the child and overall orphanage care system in Russia.