Much of Eastern Europe has been devastated by the rapid transition from communism to capitalism.  Fifteen years since independence from the former USSR, the Ukraine ­ Europe’s second largest country ­ is struggling to regain economic and social stability.  “Flowers Don’t Grow Here” ­ filmed undercover over four months and told through the eyes of a gang of Kiev’s street kids - offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of young people paying the ultimate price for political reform. Young mothers, united siblings, close friends and sworn enemies form a troubling underworld of society, governed by their own rules, and haunted by prostitution, substance abuse, crime, violence and murder... >>Lives