The Prose of Time

The film touches on the problem of the children abandoned or assailed by their own parents. A young girl sings for herself children songs, a boy tells how he was bound with a chain about the neck and beaten by dad, a grandmother raises grandchildren, who call her “mom”. The makers of the documentary recall values once held sacred and respected by the people, but nowadays ignored: to raise a child, to dig a well, to build a house. Children are abandoned, once beautiful houses are left to their fates, and the well, a symbol of the maelstrom of life, is also left on its own, drying up. A world scarred by the past and seemingly cursed by the present. Raising a child, digging a well and building a house seem to have lost their meaning nowadays.