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L'Empord is one world.

La Plana de Lleida is one world.

This is another world.

Pardines is another world.

Each sector is a world.

But they don't understand that.

They apply everything to one single

world, and it's not all one world!

They don't understand.

It's not the same to move sheep

in the mountains of Ogassa

or move them in I'Empord.

Here they must be kept one way,

and in Pardines another.

Each mountain has its own way.

Each mountain has its own slopes...

When God...

well, maybe not God, but

when nature made the mountains,

they weren't designed for cows.

They were made for sheep!

So what's going on

in the mountains?

I've never seen these thorns

here before,

but today we have thorns

thanks to the cows.

These paths through the mountains

are all dry because of the cows.

It's the cows that are f***ing up

the mountains!

If they asked me what I thought,

first thing I'd do is outlaw

electrical lines in the mountains.

If they want fences,

they'd have to make them out wood.

But no electrical lines

in the mountains!

And I'd love to say that

to the Minister of Agriculture.

Why doesn't anybody do anything?

Because Ministers don't even know

what a mountain is anyway!

Then dad passed away,

mom passed away...

And I took charge of everything

and thought:

"Either you use machines or no..."

I had gotten married by then.

If you buy machines

you'll be more tied down.

If you like animals... You have

to choose one way or the other.

So I chose animals.

When I was ten,

we'd move the lambs

over there at night, secretly.

We'd put them on our shoulders

and cross through the mountains,

taking shortcuts,

so we wouldn't get caught

by the police.

We earned 100 pesetas,

so when we went

to the local festivals,

we'd have 1,000 pesetas

to spent on girls!

I've never felt tied down by work.

Time off? I don't think I've ever had

more than 2 days off in my life.

In my line of work,

everyday's a holiday!

What really sounds boring to me

is riding on a bus

full of old people

to go on a tour somewhere.

Not for me, hell no!

What I used to do is,

after a good dinner,

come down here

and play cards

with the shepherds.

We used to play cards every night!

Those were good times.

Autumn, back to the plain

- Did you finish shearing, Marti?

- I think so.

You'll have to start

over again now!

Get the car and start pushing!

- Why?

- Because they can't find the keys.

They found them.

Sleep! Sleep!

They found them.

Rumba, come here!

Stay there!

It would hardly move!

God, it hardly moved!

Did you take the hand-brake off?

I was stepping on the foot-brake!

I left it in neutral to load the sheep

and, on that slope,

when I stepped on the brake,

I was using the hand-brake...

This guy's incredible!

Get out, Rumba, get out!

We're going to count the sheep.

Hell! This time there's not as much

mud as there was last year!

Did it give birth, Joan?

They're nice, huh?

And 200 more...

- I only counted these.

- Goats and all?

Goats and all. Even the Billy goat.

With a 0.1% margin of error!

Plus the 250 that you already have...

Damn, what a shepherd!

He was at full force!

Two families live here,

but none live from farming!

Take care, you'll get hurt!

I've been over all these

cattle paths, Cristobal.

Even if it doesn't look like one,

this is a cattle path.

I've moved sheep

with two palms of snow.

Come here!

If you don't like it, f*** off!

If you don't like it,

don't get involved!

With the cows!

Feel my shirt, it's wet!

I heard you yelling!

Holy sh*t!

- What a life!

- You are leaving?

- I didn't break anything!

- You've behaved!

Just how you like it!

- I'll bust your chops!

- Do it, if you've got balls!

- Lf I do, I'll do it hard!

- And so will I!

Whoever strikes first,

strikes twice!

I have lost some cows up here!

What a misery!

I can hear

five or six little bells!

That's bad!

Lost cows are dead cows!

- Ok, listen to me.

- What's the matter?

- Here, a cowboy, and there...

- A shepherd!

He's a cow herder, you're a shepherd,

and I'm a shepherd too...

Of the Vall del Bac restaurant!

And the dog is the President.

What a big dog!

What should we give him for

supper? An omelette?

An omelette and bread.

All right, kid!

I'll see you for supper!

Take it easy.

I went to Balearic Islands. That's

were you did your military service.

I had such a great time in Mallorca.

No, I went to Ibiza.

- Pipa!

- What's the matter?

- How many eggs for the dog's omelette?

- Three eggs!

- You guys want to sleep in a bed?

- Yes.

This guy will sleep in a real bed.

I will sleep on the floor.

You'll sleep as always.

But listen.

The old dance-floor is a mess,

so you will sleep

on the kitchen ground.

Some salt for the dog's omelette?

The dog doesn't have

high blood pressure!

Mallorca...

and all those islands

used to be full of whorehouses!

They were full of whores.

Here as well,

we used to have whorehouses.

But now,

you will not find any

in the city centre.

Long ago Girona was full of them.

Nowadays it is full of hot spots

outside, on the roads.

What about those girls

that were by the highway

last spring?

Holy sh*t!

Going towards Valenti's farm,

there's one that looks like

the Virgin Mary herself!

Didn't they want to get

them off the roads?

God no! They must not be!

Why?

You're out of your mind!

They do favours to people!

No young man in his right mind

wants to be in the mountains

all day, chasing after sheep!

If he did, no woman

would ever want him!

What did your son do?

He seemed to love the tractor,

but found a betterjob!

Well, good for him!

Get a glass of vine for you and

another for Alfonso, he's thirsty!

...and finally

the female goat gets hot.

But it takes a bit of doing...

And the male goat follows her...

And itjumps and jumps.

And the female donkey?

It doesn't allow being covered

just like that.

Itjumps around until,

at least, it stays still...

And the male donkey,

with a hard on this long...

"I had a great voice,"

"and was a great falsetto".

"I admire Jorge Negrette,"

"Pedro Vargas, and 2 others".

"But of that great voice,"

"all I have left is a spurt".

"Rose of April,"

"dark-skinned virgin"

"of the mountains"

"of Montserrat"...

"Rose of April,"

"dark-skinned virgin"

"of the mountains"

"of Montserrat"...

"Lead us"...

"And enlighten"

"the land of Catalonia!"

"Catalonia triumphant"

"will once again"

"be rich and beautiful!"

"Drive them back, these people,"

"so conceited and so arrogant".

"A good blow with the sickle,"

"a good blow with the sickle"...

Come on!

Let's go now!

All Guardia Civil are military.

And military are no good.

First of all, there was not

one Catalonian guy here.

No, no Catalonians!

They were all...

The Guardia Civil were very nasty!

God damn them!

When Quico Sabat came here,

he was killed in St. Celoni.

The year I was in the service.

He came back and the entire

"other side" was with him...

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