In the Lubombo region of Swaziland, where forty percent of the population is HIV positive and life expectancy has dropped to thirty-two years, elderly women called “gogos” (grandmothers) care for groups of young children on homesteads, most of them orphans, all of them poor. Recent migrations and deadly epidemics have broken down traditional family and social structures. One entire generation is missing. The gogos provide a social welfare system that works, though barely. Some people don’t eat every day, many are sick. This profoundly sad story, unfolding slowly and steadily through the sensitive direction of Jane Gillooly, forces us to ask:  what will happen in the near future when the gogo is gone? TBW