was screened in Rotterdam last year. It is a film about the adventure that can ambush even the most mundane life. Young Adam is a loner growing up in a small village early this century. He is the son of an unmarried woman with a ‘dubious reputation’, as that is called. He is very young, but he has fought all his life against his tragic fate. His cow is his most important possession; apart from that he is destitute. But with a cow you can survive. He meets a girl who also has a checkered past and out of necessity a relationship with her is born. The relationship develops into a loving one and the film then turns into a reflection on the meaning of life, dependence on nature and love, and people’s will to lead an apparently senseless life. is a realistic and stylistically pure drama with poetic undertones and a great feeling for couleur locale.
