The Sardinia in this film is an ancestral place, rugged and known only by those who live there everyday, like the shepherds who take centre stage in the film.
Michele is a shepherd from Orgosolo (NU), who lives his life ‘as if he were on the lamb’, with shepherds, far from the town and its people, who he has replaced with the sheep he’s sacrificed much to purchase. His only human companion is his little brother Giuseppe.
When a group of bandits take shelter in his barn, his life changes: suspected of being part of the gang, he goes on the run (for real), hiding in the Supramonte, an inhospitable and inaccessible place which has been the refuge of bandits and shepherds for centuries, stretching out over approximately 3,360 hectares in the heart of Barbagia. Nature here is wild and unspoiled, and full of gorges, caves and ravines as well as the picturesque chalky outcrops of Mount San Giovanni and Mount Fumai.
The Sardinia in this film is an ancestral place, rugged and known only by those who live there everyday, like the shepherds who take centre stage in the film.
Michele is a shepherd from Orgosolo (NU), who lives his life ‘as if he were on the lamb’, with shepherds, far from the town and its people, who he has replaced with the sheep he’s sacrificed much to purchase. His only human companion is his little brother Giuseppe.
When a group of bandits take shelter in his barn, his life changes: suspected of being part of the gang, he goes on the run (for real), hiding in the Supramonte, an inhospitable and inaccessible place which has been the refuge of bandits and shepherds for centuries, stretching out over approximately 3,360 hectares in the heart of Barbagia. Nature here is wild and unspoiled, and full of gorges, caves and ravines as well as the picturesque chalky outcrops of Mount San Giovanni and Mount Fumai.
Michele, a shepherd of Orgosolo unfairly charged with rustling and murder, is forced to take to the hills. In his flight into the inaccessible areas of Barbagia, where there is neither water nor pastures, he loses every sheep in his flock. One night, desperate because he is full of debts, and with impending trials up ahead, he goes into the sheepfold of another shepherd and, at gunpoint, steals every sheep. Michele has become a bandit.
