The Smoke

Once removed from his primordial surroundings, a man doesn't stop longing for them… In order to revive this relationship, an old man persistently repeats performing a ritual of his own, full of strong primeval symbolism. He leaves a place of urban living, and takes a steep narrow path through the rocks, to reach the dead village high up in the mountains, abandoned long time ago. There, amidst the thirty scattered remnants of former houses, on the hearth of his ancestors, he always makes a fire. The roof emanates thin, rather blue patches of smoke, and the smoke means: hearth, fire, family, life... Alone as the last man on the Earth, the hero sends the message that the life still exists there…