Moscow, Russia - may 1, 1995. Communist demonstrators take to the streets of Moscow for the annual celebration. Later in the year they would return to win the majority of seats in the Duma.
A woman suffering yet another recurrence of cancer joined in the celebration when her roommate was leaving for home. Afterwards, feeling more vulnerable than ever, she cried.
When it becomes night on the children's ward, parents join their children in the hospital beds to try to comfort them so that they might sleep, and to restore some normalcy to their fractured lives.
illness, however traumatic, can either break or re-strengthen the bonds of a family. This woman, suffering lung cancer, is comforted by her mother, whom she hadn't been close to for years.
Luke is not unlike other children with Leukemia. He is friendly and smiling, until the doctors approach him with tubes, needles and medicines. Then he beats his fists against his mother, and does so for up to 3 hours at a time, while she courageously…