It is a report on the life conditions of the inhabitants of a depressed area of the LozeÌ€re. Ruspoli inter- views the farmers at their place of work; he shows without any rhetoric the degradation of the countryside environment, caused by massive depopulation in a time of heavy industrialization. "˜ Mario Ruspoli captured the voices from the abandoned countryside, their significant words, their faces and quiet movements. He gave voice to the most derelict French farmers and we cannot help feeling immediately close to such men forgotten by our times'. ( Simone de Beauvoir).
