The Tree of Wooden Clogs

L'albero degli zoccoli

Also known as To dendro kai ta tsokara, Kigutsu no Ki, 나막신 나무, De klompenboom, 木屐樹

“When the family of man was still—a family.”

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.