VILLAGE PEOPLE / ПУСТИНЯЦИ

A small deserted rail station, where the train stops only because it is scheduled to do so. Station without future and faith. Nobody gets on or goes off the train. Old retired switchman lives there with his family. In the nearby village local poets dig graves to make ends meet. Projectionist remembers once crowded movie theater. Old man is looking for “the lover’s pear tree”. A shepherd dreams of ice cream, served in a restaurant. Paramedic - philosopher cares for elderly single woman. Twelve local men tell stories from the poorest region of the European Union - Northwestern Bulgaria. Mosaic film, slice of life from rural Bulgaria. Confession from the little people about not so little things – cows, life, faith, death, the benefits of dogs and mice and the need for blond waitresses, Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism, river fishing, old fortune tellers and the wind.