Original name
El Olivo | ES
Length
96 minutes
Rating
6.7
Overview
Alma鈥檚 family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain鈥檚 Castell贸n for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma鈥檚 grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons鈥擜lma鈥檚 father and uncle鈥攁re impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castell贸n at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.
