Flowers Don’t Grow Here

Much of Eastern Europe has been devastated by the rapid transition from communism to capitalism. Fifteen years since independence from the USSR, the Ukraine - Europe's second largest country - is struggling to regain economic and social stability. One little-known consequence is the estimated 1,000,000 children now living homeless on Ukraine's streets.

Filmed undercover over four months and told through the eyes of a gang of Kiev’s street kids, Flowers Don’t Grow Here offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of young people paying the ultimate price for political reform.