Winter comes early to Amasia region of the Shirak province. The residents of the Aregnadem village take the stoves out of storage and into their homes.

The large family of Ghukasyans, though, has no need to get to the storage room; they will have to bring their stove standing in the corridor-kitchen to the bedroom-living room.

They use the stove in summer time to cook, and to cook and heat in the wintertime. The two-room house is blackened with smoke from burned manure – the only available fuel.