For as long as they can remember, the Solés family have spent every summer picking peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop will be their last. The landowner has died, and his grandson and heir wants them to abandon their business so he can uproot the trees and install solar panels. Coming together for the harvest, the Solés find themselves at odds as to how to go on, and discover they risk losing much more than their home.
The follow-up film from writer-director Carla Simón's arresting debut Summer 1993 (2017), this award-winning feature is a lovely, bittersweet and beautifully observed character-drama about a Catalonian farming family facing an uncertain future.
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