"We saw them every day..." "They can be easily found in a crowd..." "Always the same posture, as if awaiting." "The same, bored faces with no experssion..." "They were calm - did not look like chooligans..." "Who are they?" "Why do they spend most of their day on the street?" "They told us" " Come to the statue, we gather there every day..." "They were not eager to talk about themselves..." "We only got to know that several of them still go to school... that "Long Sheriff" is looking for a job..." "Janek is thinking about driving courses..." "Wojtek is in sales..." "They considered themselves adult, independent people..." "They complained about the lack of money, flats that are difficult to stand..." "They said:" "You see, there is nothing intersting about our lives..." "Learning is difficult and unnecesary, work is not always profitable..." "so we have a lot of time..." "We met their girls as well..." "Alina..." "Here at the fruit bar one can meet people, flirt..." "Sometimes catch a guy with money..." "Noone controls her at home..." "Noone checks where she goes... what she does..." "Magda..." "She has a lot of time - second year in tenth grade, no need to learn too much..." "Clothes are the only thing she takes seriously..." "And her mother works hard to educate the daughter..." "Zoska..." "She is a bit different..." "More tenatious..." "Second year in a row she does the same job." "Eight hours at work that should be done by a machine... and then she returns home." "One room - five people..." "A Warsaw flat..." "So what does Zoska do after work?" "They said:" "Don't try to moralize:" "Laziness, no hobbies..." "Think, a man is 17 and each day looks like all the others." "Do you know what that brings?" "Boredom, damned boredom..." "Hopeless boredom..." "Wandering in the street for long hours is all they do..." "Shop windows... traffic..." "People in a hurry..." "Always new faces..." "On the street life has a different pace, it lets you forget about loneliness..." "Sometimes there is entertainment..." "They look for exciting places, where one can find adventure..." "There are such places in Warsaw..." "Various people visit the Praga port..." "Nobody controlls anyone here..." "There are various things to see..." "To get a taste of the forbidden world..." "So they come and watch..." "Here, in the heart of a big city things happen that nobody wants to talk about." "Militia comes as a last resort..." "These young people are said to be cynical, thoughtless..." "With no incentive..." "That's true." "But are they alone to be blamed?" "Weren't they allowed out of parental care too early?" "How come they were left on their own?" "Many of them had various breakdowns..." "For some of them, a catastrophy was repeating a year at school... for others - a wrong profession choice..." "Lack of family..." "The organization they belonged to didn't teach them anything - and eventually ceased to exist..." "Old truths turned out to be a pack of lies..." "They claim that it's not worth to believe anyone..." "That work, school don't help much, that one has to be cunning..." "no holds barred..." "That everything they hear is waffle..." "Such is their philosophy..." "Still..." "They feel something is wrong." "They look forward to change." "And when the change comes - they don't notice it." "For them, everything stays the same..." "Only dreams remain - as naive and shallow as their whole life..." "They would like to leave..." "Change the place..." "Meet new people..." "They envy everybody who is in a hurry..." "who has some goals." "They envy those who can afford a better, more affluent life." "They dream about things out of their reach." "Zoska earns only 800 zlotys." "Only the cinema brings the dreams closer..." "Takes to a different world..." "for two whole hours..." "But reality waits just behind the gate." "They come here everyday..." "They don't have lives of their own, so they keep looking..." "They want to fill in the emptiness..." "To find some entertainment..." "Kill the boredom..." "Get any entertainment at all..." "At any price..." "They invited us to this party themselves." "They said:" "Come over, you'll have some fun... we have nothing to hide..." "They have nothing to hide..." "They want to kill all the emptiness and boredom in one go..." "We are not suckers!" "Never mind tomorrow - today counts..." ""Drunkennes Spreads..." "Among Young People"," ""Second Life of the Young", "We Must Raise Alarm"," ""We Are All Responsible", "Who Will Help Them?"," ""What About Future?" "Still An Open Question"" "We meet them every day..." "They are so numerous..." "They live in emptiness..." "They are no longer a phenomenon, but a serious social problem..." "PEOPLE FROM AN EMPTY ZONE - one more problem that must be solved..." "Directed by" "Camera" "Music" "Editing" "Production" "Distribution"