Translated description:
"The way of Fiche", eco-documentary exploration, is the audiovisual recording of a bike trip through the Salento to the discovery of dozens of fig varieties and their keepers.
During the summer of 2008 a group of young people from different countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Argentina) through the Salento countryside in search of names, tastes and colors of the figs.
the choice of the fig tree is not accidental: it is, in fact, a fruit that has a particularly biodiversity varied (more than eighty varieties surveyed, only in salento) and an ancient history almost denied by a world that tends to standardize not only taste, but also the choices; a world to which these young people, through this trip, they try to deny, but trying as it were to "give a" signal to their peers and not.
The whole crew moves by bicycle: an ecological means of transport and an alternative way to travel through this land, discover its landscapes, its squares, alleys hidden countries. The trip will be slow, the stops will be the most important of going, there will be time to listen to the sound of the earth and the people who live there and guard.
Led by a botanist, an expert on figs and one of the organizers of the "party of chips "(which is celebrated every year in Maritime Diso, and that will be the final destination of the tour) will make a kind of time travel to an ancient world, it is losing memory. So discover the fascinating world of the keepers, the real protagonists of the documentary: listen to the tales of a time when the figs were the daily bread of the poor, when he sang in the threshing floor at the end of the working day, when "nu undermined if Nenzi "(austerity and dialect are two other characteristic features of rural culture, that the documentary wants to collect.)
Each of the keepers has its own story, his accent, his trees; through the detailed illustration of the dozens of fig varieties she shares her wisdom, not just botany, cyclists and spectators. The fig tree, in Mediterranean countries, is one of the symbols of a civilization, the peasant, who in sobriety, in slowness, in the kindness its characteristic features. Sobriety, above all, is understood here as a possible form of resistance to the rampant consumerism that depletes natural resources and causes incurable imbalances. The fig tree thus becomes a good excuse to talk about something else: for modernity, politics, ecology.
Finally the documentary will also feature meetings with ordinary people who populate the streets of Salento villages and "the party of chips" in Marittima Diso.
the original music soundtrack was composed and performed by Ciccio Zabini, one of the participants in the bike ride.