-- Dir. José Ramón Capdevila - 76min - 2021 - Spain --

José Ramón Capdevila is in charge of an old family farm in Binéfar (Huesca), a town that is experiencing its particular “gold rush” due to the construction of a huge industrial slaughterhouse, rumored to be one of the largest in Europe.

At the same time, José Ramón has to attend to various problems. First, the irrigation system becomes clogged because the only pipe that feeds the intake no longer supplies enough. Tired, the community members have found a solution: the construction of a new warehouse, a work of which José Ramón, as the person in charge, is in charge of supervising. Second, his mother, Rosita, matriarch of the family, tired of seeing how the space that was his home is increasingly left, pressures him to take care of it more, a matter that José Ramón, harassed by work, always leaves it to “later”.

One morning, José Ramón receives a call from his son Raúl. He is in town and, resigned, after being rejected in several job interviews, has decided to return home while looking for something better.

The days go by and the return home is now a reality. José Ramón and Raúl work together on the farm, taking care of the animals and tilling the land. In addition, they have to solve a problem derived from the construction of the deposit: one of the members of the community disagrees with the financial compensation he receives for giving up part of his property for the work, threatening to stop the project if he is not rewarded duly.

Finally, the rearing ends and the pigs are loaded. After it, only “the balances” remain, those pigs that are not economically profitable. This time it was one and, as usual, they slaughter it and deposit it in the container for bodies. One more upbringing ends, soon another will begin.