This is a documentary with heart, big bursting heart. To watch these children living in the squalor they find themselves in - the girls wash dishes on the floor, there are no windows, they move to the next room when men come to see their mother so they only have to hear her make her living as a sex worker and not have to watch it - is heart breaking. To watch Zana Briski do what she can is heart lifting. Even in this tiny world where nobody has much if anything the boys are still given preferential treatment. Here they are at the bottom and they still buy into the myth that the boys should deserve and the girls work. The directors present this world in a way that grabs you and keeps you interested. They present the kids and their world intimately. They give the kids cameras and teach them photography and let them loose. The shots these kids take are wonderful and communicate their place in the world and their view.
