Barroso is an isolated region of Portugal where people live at the rhythm of the herds and the seasons. There, one can witness an ancestral way of life which will probably not last. Everyone knows it is the end of it soon and secretely draws the meshes of sparse memories. The memory resists, the setting serves as a mirror. In reminding us what we used to be, it also reflects what have become.

Life, a Long Long Way

In the north of Spain at the heart of the Aragon: ruined houses, gutted facades and streets lost amongst the rubble. These are the remains of the old village of Belchite which was the scene of fierce fighting during the Spanish civil war. A few hundred meters away there is the «new» village, built in the fifties, on the order of Franco. The two villages live side by side in the enigmatic coexistence of past and present.