Based on Rafael Vallbona's novel, XXV Ferran Canyameres Prize, the director Pau Calpe has adapted it to the cinema, with a script by Marta Grau. The filming has been carried out for 15 days (3 weeks in Barcelona and Lleida). In our city, they shot on Carbassa Street; at Pensión Segre (Simón Oller street), and the Sants bus station. Also, in Badalona on the beach and El Pescador Restaurant.

Alcastrer, Ponent. A town of a hundred souls. Joan (Pep Cruz), an old and ill-faced peasant, tired of suffering robberies in the mas, decides to join the nightly rounds of peasants who guard the land, the militia. His son Pepe (Roger Casamajor), who has just returned from the city, accompanies him. During the round, Joan and Pepe run into a thief in the land. Annabel Castán, Montserrat Miralles, and Ramón Bonvehí complete the cast with amateurs actors from Lleida.