The Giorgi and Lazare brothers play at hunting lake snakes with their hands to entertain themselves while waiting for the blueberry harvest season to arrive.

Their courage is visible, unlike that of his father Soso and his mother, whose actions require a little more reflection to notice the risk of their life adventure.

Both Soso and his wife have taken a huge financial risk because they decided to invest in land to farm, and the support from the government’s “Plant the Future” program only provides loans without providing any real support to small farmers like them. If they’re lucky, they’ll have dinner by electric lights, not in the dark like yesterday.

The risk is not only financial; the area where their plantation is located is high-risk because it is close to Abkhazia. The danger of sparks that caused the 1992-1993 conflict is still latent, and we must not forget the 2008 conflict and the current war between Ukraine and Russia. There is no melodrama, but I don’t think this is because it is a documentary, but rather because of the resilience of the family, who, incidentally, point out that they have mortgaged their fireplace, their tables and chairs and now own almost nothing where they live because of the project in question.

The film is quite intimate and highlights the rhetoric of politicians in supporting agriculture, because it could be said that Soso’s dream is slowly being shattered by reality, in contrast to the enthusiastic billboards that Mikaberidze ingeniously used as props. There is will, there is survival, but his two children, although obedient, do not hide their interest in going to America or disconnecting from the countryside. Seen in this light, the living dreams that are crumbling depend, as in the beginning, exclusively on Soso and his wife.