Copyright: Institute for Social and Gender Policy (Russia), Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute, International Gender Policy Network (Czech Republic)
In this film, two women, a mother and her daughter, demonstrate that poverty in Russia is increasingly a women's phenomenon. Luba and Alesaya live in a typical Russian village: the population consists of male drunkards, with few or no exceptions, and exhausted women. Luba and Alesya are milkmaids at a state farm - a profession that is underpaid and perceived as too strenuous for most people. But Luba and Alesya, who are raising children and fleeing domestic violence, have little choice. While many in their circumstances would seek help from their government, they have no one to rely on in their small, isolated village except themselves.This film is part of the Gender Montage: Films from Post-Soviet Space film series. The film has both English and Russian subtitles.