Across three generations, a family's bond to their land slowly slips away as survival pulls the young toward a life elsewhere.
Returning to her childhood’s red soil, a filmmaker resumes a family chronicle unfinished for twenty years. Drawn back by her nephew’s death, which forced his siblings to quit school, she mirrors the youths’ uncertainty as they drift into adulthood amid parents’ struggle for survival.
Weaving archives with the present coffee harvest, the film follows a Catholic family who fled northern poverty for post-war New Economic Zones across three generations, from elders who cleared wild terrain by hand, to siblings venturing deeper into the forest as land becomes a volatile commodity, to a youngest generation priced out of staying. Unhaunted by past hunger, these youths face their own inner struggles in a modern lifestyle, prompting the filmmaker to bridge the generational silence.
Years of toil transformed her siblings into landowners, reshaping the seasonal rhythm. The harvest now hinges on landless migrant pickers from ethnic minorities. In makeshift hillside shelters, landowners and seasonal workers share exhaustion and brief fellowship before returning to lives worlds apart.
As the harvest season closes, the filmmaker confronts her guilt as the only sibling who escaped through education, witnessing the youngest generation repeat her history, migrating toward urban boarding houses and a future severed from the land.
