Asian Earth

The warm relationships in the life of a Hindu farming family of the lower Ganges Valley is depicted through two simultaneous cycles of a day and a year, Sequences show the mother bathing in the morning, the father plowing in the spring in the springtime, the family building a new home, fertilizing fields and cooking noonday meal. A complete sequence on rice culture in climaxed by an autumn festival. Nature reigns supreme when disaster strikes through a locust invasion, drought and death of the grandfather, At dusk the family offers a prayer from the village promontory. Late in the evening, gathered inside the shelter, the mother reviews their life and contemplates possible solutions.