The movie brings us close to their faces as they hold anger and heartbreak in check, and captures the implacable ardor and mass jubilation that erupt when people prove that right makes might, and not the other way around.
Until May 13th, anger and frustration over the lack of reforms, jobs and freedom of expression were kept incheck by the knowledge of Uzbekistan's abominable human-rights abuses and the existence of 6, 000 religious and political prisoners.