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Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen cements his reputation as one of contemporary European cinema's specialists in suspense with his hugely accomplished fourth feature. Based on real-life events, Denis Menochet and Marina Fois play a married couple whose dream of moving to the countryside gradually turns into a living nightmare.
Antoine and Olga have moved to a small village in Galicia, in Spain's northwest. They support themselves by growing and selling their own vegetables, and in their spare time repair and refurbish abandoned cottages in the neighbourhood. It's a quiet and peaceful existence. At least it was, until the neighbourhood are approached by Norwegian developers who are willing to pay out the residents of the neighbourhood to build a wind farm on their property. Antoine and Olga are the only residents who voted against the development, much to the annoyance of two local brothers, who have grown piqued by the couple's presence in the community. It's an opportunity that many locals would benefit from financially. But it doesn't fit with Antoine and Olga's vision of their perfect country life. From this disagreement, tensions and tempers rise, pushing the situation to the point of no return.