Riana asked Leo Vardiashvili:

I love this quote from one of your interviews - "I think it’s Nodar who says: ‘It’s a shell, it kills anyway, it doesn’t matter where it came from. I don’t care if it’s the Russians or Georgians.’ And that kind of sums it up, it doesn’t matter [who is doing the shelling], you’re destroying things, you’re hurting people’s families.” Did you lose any family during the civil war?

Leo Vardiashvili No, my family was lucky enough not to lose any members directly to the civil war, or the war in South Ossetia (Samachablo), or the war in Abkhazia. But there are many, many Georgians who cannot say the same...

I feel for them, and sympathise with their pain.

Nodar as a character is unusual in the conclusion he has come to - he is obsessed with finding his daughter and as a result he realises that assigning blame brings him no closer to finding her.

That's why he doesn't care who is to blame.

There are many Georgians who do not have that luxury. They wish to assign responsibility for their very real, and often very recent loss. Closure is important, in whatever way they personally come to it.

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