Les Enracinés

You only need to take small side-roads to land up in unknown territory and meet people of our grandparents’ generation, whose way of life has not changed since their youth. They do not want to leave their land or move into an old people’s home. Yvette, the former level-crossing keeper, Arlette and Léon, farmers whose lives are inseparable from the trees, animals and the seasons, Catherine and Jean, who are still in love. They all talk about their attachment to their way of life, their work and their carefully hidden sorrows. They all refuse the dependent and resigned existence of the “elderly”.