The Village on the Oredezh River

…The teenage sisters Katya and Lena Komarova, from a large poor family, have their mouths full of worries: while their drunk father and mother argue with each other, someone has to somehow feed, clothe, and shoe the younger sisters and brothers. The 1998 crisis is on the horizon, but hope for a miracle doesn’t leave the children. And the miracle does happen. Because where an adult will see nothing but poverty and hopelessness, a child is able to see a secret…