This film is a candid view into a community of homeless children living in and around a Moscow train station. The filmmakers observe the children’s day-to-day existence: begging, sniffing glue, cavorting in steam tunnels, and mourning their dead. They are often breezily unkind to each other. Their lives are characterized by disease, prostitution and failed parenting. The film’s achievement is its ability to transcend the harshness of the train station to reveal individual character and humanity.  NK