Film profiles babushkas who returned after Chernobyl

摘要

A new film looks at the people who refused to leave after an explosion nearly three decades ago at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced 116,000 Ukrainians from their homes. About 1,200 people returned illegally to their homes within the 1,000- square-mile "exclusion zone" around the plant, and of those still alive, almost all are women in their 70s and 80s.