Directed by Andrzej Celiński and Hanna Polak, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
[1] A text at the beginning of the film states that since the fall of the Soviet Union, between 1 and 4 million Russian children have become homeless and about 30,000 of them live around the Moscow railway stations.
Sergiozha and his brothers seek shelter on the hot-water pipes in the sewers over the winter while others sleep in the trains or in the station.
All them are addicted to sniffing glue, they drink vodka during the day and sometimes sleep in rundown empty houses.
One of the last scenes shows the emotional funeral of a young girl, Tanya, that died from a glue overdose one day before her fourteenth birthday.