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In this unusual work, adapted from the sociological study by Ronald Blythe, Peter Hall directs a group of non-actors, playing either themselves, close relations, or ancesters, in this dramatized investigation into three generations of farmers in a Suffolk village in the English countryside. The film shifts from the past to the Suffolk village in the 1970s, as Hall points out that the struggles of the poor farmers in the past are not so much different from the struggles of the present.