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A mountain farming family confronts the arrival of wealthy outsiders who buy forest land and build villas, disrupting long-standing isolation and local land expectations. Generational tensions arise as a deliberate, slow-to-act patriarch resists change while his children respond with loyalty, embarrassment, and sharper feelings of ownership and loss. The narrative portrays daily homestead life—work, sibling relations, local labor—and follows conflicts over property, social difference, and authority. Episodes of community administration and seasonal hardships, including drought, frame themes of tradition versus modernity and the emotional costs that economic and environmental change impose on rural families.
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