We are generally reluctant to look into the well of poverty, and we often do not see into it. We may notice it, but we do not dare to delve deeply, fearing that it will reveal darkness and hopeless dead ends. As a result, we neither come to know nor understand the paths and mazes that await new generations as well-trodden paths or those that are waiting to be painstakingly constructed before the young people growing up in deep poverty. The documentary film Indulj el egy úton (Take Your Path) and the accompanying textual document that the reader holds attempt to provide insight into the human reality of this world, the everyday life of the culture of poverty, and latently search for answers to the chances, driving forces, and pitfalls of social mobility for young people (aged 16-17) living in deep poverty.

The completed anthropological research and creation does not evaluate or judge but offers from the well of water and presents to the viewer/reader a world, leaving it to the recipient to interpret this segment of reality that exists around us in our society today.

Among the numerous anthropological films, I will highlight one that served as a model during the research and participatory filmmaking process for the creation of the film Indulj el egy úton (Take Your Path). This model was a participatory film project conducted with the Navajo Indians in Arizona, carried out by Sol Worth and John Adair in 1972. The two anthropologists taught six young Navajo men and women