Solid Ground (2015)

• 66%
• 2015
• Documentary
• Émile Proulx-Cloutier
• Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

-Pascale, Raphael and Celeste are 15 and 16 years old. An adolescence like any other: the first flirtations, the first mourning, the fragile parental bonds. But they are literally - in the field. They are in high school in a special little school in the Eastern Townships, where they learn about farming: La Maison Familiale Rurale. Several times during the year, they each have to go on long stays with a local farmer. They learn to work alongside him and have to integrate into his family: a multi-champion of cow beauty contests, a lumberjack refusing big machines and swearing only by his horses - A real master-apprentice relationship develops between these workers of the earth and our young characters, both feet in the living. In the heart of the splendours of nature, with an attentive camera that knows how to make you forget yourself, "LE PLANCHER DES VACHES" follows the unique journey of three secret and endearing teenagers who will confront their limits, discover the meaning of the bond and learn to live at the rhythm of the earth and the animals.