The film tells the life of a female beekeeper living in a remote village in North Macedonia. She was born and raised in Sri Lanka and has an old mother who is over eighty years old and has a right eye disease. The desolate village is backed by a lonely mountain. At night, you can still vaguely wait for a wolf howl in the distance. There is no electricity in the village. During the day, the house relies on the window to let in some sunlight, and at night, it is illuminated by two isolated candles. The village is close to a river, and there is only one old well in the village that can barely flow out a stream of water. This is where the heroine lives, and if it hadn't been for the occasional trip to town to sell honey to make money, it would have been a completely secluded life.
The heroine is industrious and kind. She chopping firewood to maintain her family's life by herself. She climbs the steep mountain wall by herself to lure wild bees back. She obeys the rules of nature, understands the rhythm of beekeeping, and always adheres to the bottom line of taking half and keeping half of honey produced by bees. , and also strongly opposed the subsequent behavior of the neighbors who set fire to the grass to damage the environment. The neighbor chose to leave after setting the fire, but she insisted on staying until the fire was completely extinguished. She imitates the habits of wild bees and feeds bees in the caves of the stone walls. Whenever she tastes the honey, the joy in her eyes always makes people feel her love and hope for life. She was born in a difficult situation but never bowed to fate .
And day after day, a family of nine came back from the village, with a RV and dozens of livestock, and replaced the noise of bees buzzing with children's laughter. At first she was just curious, standing in the distance and quietly watching other people and the whole family busy working, and slowly the heroine became busy. She sang and chatted with the children, and swayed on the swing. He also gave a kitten from his own cat to a little girl in the neighbor's house. Kind-hearted, she gets along well with her new neighbor, and even if the neighbor raises bees later, she still warmly advises him.
And the fate of this beekeeper is destined to make people sad. His mother died of old age and his father died, and he has no other relatives to rely on, and he has no family and no children to accompany him. There is no doubt that the bees are everything to her, and she respects them and appreciates them for feeding herself and her mother. She treated them kindly, using fallen leaves to rescue bees that stumbled while drinking, and grieved when neighbors increased beekeeping and killed their own bees. The liveliness of other people's homes is in stark contrast to the quietness of her own, and the envious eyes again and again can't change her fate destined to be alone.
A blight sickened a large number of calves, and the neighbors had to start all over again. The long winter has taken away the mother who has no time, and beekeepers without bees can no longer look forward to the arrival of spring as in previous years. And what should she do?
At the end of the film, the heroine once again carried a small bag and climbed up the cliff at the beginning of the film, picking up pieces of crystal clear honey. She shared the last sweetness of the land with her dog on the snow-capped land.
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