Hassan is a poor young man, who finds himself chased because he had to steal, and during the escape he rides in a car with Salma who escaped from her stepfather. The two of them become fugitives after a corrupt cop accused Hassan of killing one of his men.
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.
