Igarka Hope and Butterfly

In 1941 almost 4000 children under the age of 16 were deported from Latvia to Siberia Some returned to Latvia many perished and many were left in exile where they had their own children Nadežda Āriņa and Anatolijs Taurenis were born in the 1950s in permanently frozen Igarka in Siberia Their mothers had been childhood friends in Latvia before their deportation Nadja returned to Latvia where she now sells souvenirs but for Taurenis Latvia is still a dream In 2007 Nadežda heads to Igarka to visit Taurenis