"There have been times when I've gone several days and looked at two pieces of toast and thought that there must be enough for the kids. So, I have had to do without, because my children should not go to bed hungry," she says. Rikke Berg is a single mother of four children, unemployed and among the Danes scraping the bottom of the social statistics. She lives on the island of Lolland, where one in four people are unemployed and therefore have the lowest incomes in the country. She has always procured a living. As long as her children can get diapers and food, she is convinced that everything will be all right. Every choice is based on priority. The choice between food on the table and rain pants for the kids, and taking one bath every three days to save the pellets. But the love between them has always overshadowed all obstacles. Those moments they have together lead her away from hopelessness.

Rikke Berg helps her daughter Mie get dressed before going to kindergarten.

Late at night, all three are safely held in the small bedroom, left to dream.