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Hey guys, I lived this in my primary school years and I am not a gypsy (the word rom sounds too artificial and meaningless to me). Romans were the the citizens of the antique empire from where our civilization originates, Romanians - our North neighbor. I had the destiny to live among people from our minorities where I was the minority. Coming from a poor family like everyone around me I was forced to study for 8 years during my primary school with people which were excusing their missing homeworks with excuses like "my donkey or goat ate it" could sound like a nice joke to you who never lived surrounded by ignorance and poverty. It's a pity to show my country in such a way but it is absolute truth, the thing is that those gypsy folks does not have the courage, the motivation, the will to educate themselves. I live in the cloak of Europe, it is so funny for me when some BG nationalists or as they call them self patriots could blame and attack someone from inside or outside which is just showing the miserable reality here. The simple truth is shown here, they just missed to said something which is typical for the Frenchy way of presenting the things only from the tolerance to the minorities searching point of view and that thing is there are no victims here, everyone of this rotten society is a victim - one pushing the other to the poverty and the other is blaming and pushing from his side the other down. That's the story of our society here - a vice circle. Tolerance means nothing if there is no will for development and integration. Bravo for the realistic ghetto scenes presented in the movie.

This documentary depicts life of Sliven, one of the Romani ghettos in Bulgaria. The forced ghettoization of the Roma in one place away from the town, the life of its own that the town has and the effort the locals take to keep the Roma separate from the schools and work in the town.

As I found out, this is a controversial issue for many and the views on the Roma and their place in the society differ. Whose fault is it they can't adjust, do they want to adjust and should they be forced to do so, those and other questions are always present in countries of the former Eastern block in Europe especially.

This documentary is a great depiction of the efforts of one man and several children to get a better education than is offered to them and a real eye opener. Highly recommended to everyone who wishes to know more rather than repeat the clichés on the Roma repeated by the majority of the society.