An artistic Bulgarian survived from the State Security’s machine after 1944 and devoted herself for 24 years to large-scale charity work on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. ATANAS KIRYAKOV is a writer/director. He studied at the Higher School of Film Arts in Paris in 1963. He worked for BNT and Vreme Film Studio. His credits include more than 100 films: The Survivors (1990) and The Doomed (1994) about the camps in Belene and Lovech, the documentaries There’s Hell in Heaven, Too (2007, Golden Rhyton), Taking Refuge in Memory, Let’s Save the Air (1977), etc.