This documentary takes us to the northern flanks of the Pyrenees, where a succession of storytellers slowly reveals a rather confusing tale of love and loneliness. The filmmaker is repeatedly redirected in her task by the media-savvy shepherds and shopkeepers, some of them already subjects of television documentaries. With good-humored brio they question the outsider's interest in their traditional life ways, as if to say, "Relax, we're all authentic!" A passing reference to the eligibility of shepherds-and the reluctance of women to wed them for fear of becoming "buried in the mountain"-is of interest in that it addresses local issues of "city" versus "country," and refers also to the general depopulation of rural Europe. As for the mysterious love story, many details remain in dispute. One of the participants provided this summary: "It's fiction! But also reality. It's the truth. It can't be any other way."-Thor Anderson