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Nino, an elegant lady in her mid-forties in Tiflis, had a sheltered childhood in the Soviet Union: growing up in a big house, spoiled by her wealthy parents, envied by her classmates. But ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union the beautiful facade has been crumbling. Nostalgic parties, wistful songs and vodka can’t quite conceal the financial downward spiral that the family finds itself in. Business is bad for their little shop these days; the cost of living has increased, while their needs have remained the same. Incapable of coming to terms with the new challenges and inexperienced in thrift, Nino, the family breadwinner, sets up her own personal snowballing system of loans, pawned items and mortgages. This soon threatens to roll over her ... Salomé Alexi’s tragicomic feature film debut gives a face to the Georgian finance crisis: in the years from 2009 to 2013 fourteen percent of all families in Georgia lost their homes due to high interest rates and mortgages that they could not pay back.