This is the ballad of a shepherd. The film is about misunderstandings and
clashes between highlanders, who drive their herds to the plains in the autumn
to keep them fed until spring comes and the plainsmen who forbid to do so.
The plainsmen have the law and authority on their side. On the side of the
highlanders is only their acute need to survive and secure a livelihood by
driving their herds to graze in the fields of Slavonia and Vojvodina. One
republic prohibits this kind of migration, while the others does not. The
plainsmen attack highlanders with rifles and clubs, and send them back to Bosnia
aided by the police, but the herdsmen keep coming back. Milan and Steva, two
brothers from Mount Vlasici, as well as other shepherds, stand to be
deprived of their property , their livelihood and their very traditional morals.
This is how their drama begins. The drama of the last herdsmen in the mountains
and plains of the Balkans.
Short summary
The plainsmen have the law and authority on their side. On the side of the
highlanders is only their acute need to survive and secure a livelihood by
driving their herds to graze in the fields of Slavonia and Vojvodina. One
republic prohibits this kind of migration, while the others does not. The
plainsmen attack highlanders with rifles and clubs, and send them back to Bosnia
aided by the police, but the herdsmen keep coming back. Milan and Steva, two
brothers from Mount Vlasici, as well as other shepherds, stand to be
deprived of their property , their livelihood and their very traditional morals.
This is how their drama begins. The drama of the last herdsmen in the mountains
and plains of the Balkans.
