A lively geologist working as an intern at the Prehistory and Paleontological Museum of Orce in Granada meets a badly hurt shepherd. This chance encounter plants the seed of Historia de pastores, an adventurous film that finds a perfect mixture between the old and the new. Dwelling equally on orality and charged silence, suggestion and contemplation, Jaime Puertas Castillo builds an engaging narrative of rural life in the south of Spain – punctuated by extraneous elements plus some powerful, surprising twists.
Andalusia, 70's. El Ajillo, a 50 year old hunter during the day and thief at night, is tormented by the disappearance of his hunting dog. He is too confused to commit this night's theft. But his friends do not care, and encourage him to join. Little by little the guilt will take over the Ajillo, and it will end up confessing its most horrible secrets.
