Annya Pesenko's father, Vachlav, does the daily laundry. Annya (1990) has a brain tumor, which appeared in 2000. She was first diagnosed with cancer in 1994. Annya is routinely rushed into hospital. At night her parents, Valentina and Vachlav, sleep on the floor next to her bed, for Annya has to be turned every fifteen minutes to prevent bedsores. The young girl needs help with everything. Chernobyl in the Ukraine became the site of the most infamous nuclear disaster accident of all. In 1986 the explosion of the nuclear reactor affected the lives of millions in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Both countries have plans to build new reactors to export energy to Europe.