The Seasons

The film travels at the pace of the seasons through the real and fictional story of a region in Portugal the Alentejo and the peoples who have lived there It begins at a present with no memory and travels back in time to the immemorial time before the invention of writing Along the way it crosses more or less distant pasts the work and life of German archaeologists detained far away from home during WWII through their archives and letters the occupation of the land by the rural workers after the revolution in April 1974 stories kept in the collective memory During this journey we meet women and men old people and children shepherds hunters beekeepers archaeologist teachers and storytellers and also ruins dolmens and a thousandyear old olive tree All contribute with their memories believes and knowledge to compose a poetic political multilayered and polyphonic portrait of the region Maureen Fazendeiro