La drum

In March 1997, a shepherd herding a flock of sheep was robbed and murdered in a forest. His body was later found by his son. Through an investigative approach to this news item, the film penetrates the closed and archaic world of the Carpathian shepherds who, each winter, accompany their flocks and sheepdogs over thousands of miles. For seven months, they leave their villages, then set out on the return journey covering over thirty kilometres a day, sleeping out in their strange loose-fitting greatcoats. In the biting cold and the lashing rain, their solitude is immense and along this ‘sheep trail’ there lurk many dangers-robbers, wild animals…