The history teacher must die, the children should run across the pear field to freedom - that is Lela's plan. At the boarding school for mentally handicapped children in Tbilisi, a relic from Soviet times, the angry girl has taken on the role of protector. The teachers are overwhelmed with the "debiles". Very few of their protégés are handicapped, but they are all abandoned and cut off. Lela's hatred of the history teacher is as murderous as her sisterly relationship with Irakli: she accompanies him to a high-rise apartment in the neighbourhood, where he is allowed to phone his mother in Greece once a week. Irakli refuses to believe what Lela has long known: his mother will never return, nor will she take him to her. Lela forces him to learn English, supports his hope of going to America. A dream that one day, when an E.