It is very likely that the secret of Carla Simón’s success (with ‘Alcarràs’, now, and before, with ‘Estiu 1993’) is hidden in the comment made by his uncles when he told them that he wanted to make a film about the town, about the peach trees, about life in the countryside, the passage of time and the loss of hope. “What do you want to tell about here? & rdquor ;, they said. This “here” is key. Because “here” nothing remarkable happens, that deserves the lofty category of great tragedies. There are no characters with symbolic relevance, there are no wild adventures or dramatic love affairs, there are no bizarre arguments or moral conflicts of those who serve us as a mirror. What’s up then? What did Carla Simón see? Perhaps something as simple and as transcendent as what Giorgio Strehler, the Italian director, observed when he premiered ‘The Cherry Orchard’: “Everyone is an orchard & rdquor ;. That “stage poem about the pain that comes with change”, that elegy about a languishing rural life should not interest anyone either. And yet, it turns out that it challenges us all. Like these fields of peach trees in Segrià. What do you want to tell? the life that passes. We who are there.