1975 yazında, zenginlerin ve yerel halkın çocukları arasında uzun süredir devam eden düşmanlık yeniden alev alır. Ancak merhamet ve romantizm her şeyi değiştirebilir.

The War of Bumpkins

Il paese dove gli alberi volano

Italian documentary illustrating the xylella virus devastation of the olive-growing flora in Apulia by the xylella virus.  In Apulia, a region in south-eastern Italy, the most serious botanical pandemic of the century is underway: a quarantine bacterium, Xylella Fastidiosa, is killing millions of olive trees.  Disrupting landscape, economy and human relations.  The Era of Giants narrates Giuseppe’s journey to his father’s land, in the Plain of the Monumental Olive Trees, where the epidemic is imminent.  He will have to explain to the old farmer how their lives will be disrupted by this invisible bacterium, hitherto unknown in Italy.