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Sep 14, 2020rugolin rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Actually the country is called North Macedonia as just a correction in the library synopsis where this film takes place showing the life of Hatidze Muratova as a very lonely wild bee keeper and sole caregiver of an elderly mother. Traditionally the youngest female sibling can't marry till their parents have past on. Her solitude in her abandoned village is ended when a nomadic rowdy family of cattle herders camp themselves near her home. They also want to beekeep and Hatidze tries to teach them her natural and ecological balanced way of taking only half the honey and leaving the other half in hives for a natural sustainable production. She quickly get into a conflict with the family when they decide to exploit the resources around them as quickly and as profitably as they can causing great collateral damage to the bee ecology. Even though a small and bit slow moving documentary it can also be seen as an allegory on how greed and exploitation disrupts the natural world and the people who survived on it's natural cycles.