Director and photo-journalist Raymond Depardon traverses the hills of the Cévennes region of southern France chatting to and about the lives of several generations of a disappearing breed of French farmers, many of whom he has known and earned the trust of over the last ten years (in fact, and inconsequentially, this is the third and final documentary he has made of these peoples' lives). This humanist film never romanticises the life of the hill farmer, but, with astute cinematography, attractive narration and pointed questioning he captures for history a vanishing way of life.