Little Escapes is a rustic fable woven from the images and rhythms of rural Switzerland: the bucolic landscapes and the burden of farming, the dreamy quiet and the quiet desperation. An aged farmhand, Pipe, spends his first government pension on a moped and sets out on daily excursions--little escapes--into the world around him that he had been unable to explore in some 40 years of farming. Within his crusty old worker's personality an autonomous human being, still young enough to discover, begins to flower; dreams of rebellion are realized in small ways. In his first fiction film, documentary filmmaker Yves Yersin sets the “little escapes” of Pipe against a compellingly realistic background of a middle class farming family, already weary with the daily grind, who are now being forced by declining finances to accept modern methods that threaten their way of life with extinction. Yersin's sensitivity to the myriad details of farm life and the awe-inspiring beauty that is taken for granted by the locals brings knowing warmth to Little Escapes, which has been enthusiastically received at film festivals from Cannes to New York and Los Angeles, and in Switzerland is one of the most popular films of the last decade.