Synopsis
A young woman leaves her parents’ farm to work as an Alpine dairymaid. Far removed from the world in the valley, she leads a simple but free life, bound by the daily rhythm of the cattle on the mountain pasture. For one Alpine summer, the self-assured dairymaid forgets the family farm and its unsettled future. By the following winter Uschi is pregnant, her boyfriend gone and the Alpine summer a thing of the distant past. At home, a tedious tug-of-war begins between Uschi and her parents over the transfer of the farm. Matti Bauer's film tells the story of a young woman in the Bavarian Oberland. Over the span of nearly ten years, he shows us how Uschi's dream lives on, despite all external constraints - her dream of a free life, up on the mountain pasture.
