BBC Storyville

It takes palce in a picturesque landscape of the village of Ditchling in Eastern Sussex, where Holland has been living for a while and, in his journalistic style, recording the farmers strongly affected by the crisis in agriculture and the anti-fox-hunting campaign. The film also depicts the tension between the director and his protagonist, farmer and hunter Gary Lee. Lee ‘greets’ him with the words: ‘Turn the bloody camera off!’ Despite this, incredibly persistent and resolute Holland never turned his camera off – not even when Gary was driving the tractor, feeding the dogs, taking care of the calves and lambs – all this in the company of the hordes of local children. During shooting of this film, the bill banning fox-hunt was being voted in the Parliament (it was enacted in early 2005). Hunters were revolted, because, in their opinion, the ban was abolishing an entire way of life.