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Nicola and Jana work off the land in Kotevska's home country of Macedonia. In an early scene, they bring literally three tons of potatoes to be sold, only to go home with the unusable crop due to increasing regulation and wholesalers looking for irrational deals. It's not that the earth doesn't support these people in their efforts to continue their generation-spanning work, it's that the system has let them down.
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