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A really well made modern realist film filled with the unspoken desperation of a 13 year old boy caught up in the repetitive grind of poverty. A brilliant performance by Avtandil Tetradze as Susa, a boy who lives in a shack with his mother which is a bus ride from a small town. Money's too tight for Susa to go to school, instead he gets up early to go to the impoverished town where he works for an illegal backstreet vodka factory. He takes as many bottles as he can carry in his shoulder bag and spends the whole day traipsing around on his own selling them. His constant vista are the dirty run down concrete buildings of the town. He does this every day and has to give a portion of his money to two bullies who hang around the marketplace. His days are filled with silence and walking and waiting for his dad to return.