The Tree of Wooden Clogs

When the family of man was still—a family.

A tender, deeply nostalgic portrait of peasant family life at the turn of the century, where small sacrifices and bonds of kinship sustain dignity amid material hardship.

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.