Yves, an aging shepherd, lives and works in the French Pyrenees, where brown bears have been reintroduced due to controversial wildlife management measures. As bear attacks on the community’s flocks increase, tensions among the ranchers reveal a strain between generations and ideologies, threatening lives and livelihoods. The times are changing despite the timeless landscape, and as the ramifications of the rewilding mount, Lisa and Cyril are compelled to assert themselves as a successor to the shepherd and as a bear tracker, respectively—all captured by brilliant, balletic camerawork and sequences that are by turns tranquil and suspenseful. While the grandeur of the mountains both dwarfs and magnifies the trials of the shepherds, their livestock, and some savvy dogs, the herding life goes on and the complex questions of which creatures and customs are at risk remain.  TM