A salt-dealing grandma becomes the last obstacle to a village's self-destruction. Chaos ensues.
Rosario, an elderly woman who lives with Ofelio, her disabled son, her donkey, and her goat, earns a living selling fig tree salt to the elderly, who know its ancient uses... and to the not-so-elderly, mixing it with pharmacy tranquilizers and other ingredients. The village in La Mancha where they live is ruined by the gambling addiction of its inhabitants and its rulers, who decide to sell it. Everyone resigns themselves to the forced sale, but Rosario's house and pond are in the middle of the municipality.
Acting
Saturnino García's weathered, wordless resilience anchors every frame.
Direction
Lobato finds cosmic weight in La Mancha's cracked earth.
Cinematography
The landscape becomes a character: exhausted, beautiful, defiant.
Director
Liz Lobato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
La Mancha's 'pueblos abandonados' crisis: over 3,000 Spanish villages face extinction, making Rosario's resistance politically urgent.
The fig tree salt is real—used since Roman times for preservation, now literally preserving a dying way of life.
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