Popik.

Popik, 42 years, is a small-time, unemployed and drug addict.

Popik, 42 years, is a small-time, unemployed and drug addict. In a gypsy ghetto Chanov, district Most, Czech Republic with the rate of unemployment (almost 90%), criminality, prostitution and (mostly) meth addiction represents Popik one of the typical inhabitants of the place. He lives alone, day by day, surrounded mostly by his drug companions without any life expectations and prospects. The communityof Chanov struggles with Czech social majority disdain and exclusion.

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