An anthropological portrayal of the everyday life of a Roma community in a village on the Volga river, close to Kazan in Tatarstan, in the Russian Federation. Working days are succeeded by holidays and then by working days again: this attentive visual ‘diary’ refrains as much from reiterating traditional stereotypes as it does from imposing strong narratives on the flow of life. Strong ties bind the old and the young together in a single community.