A unique documentary on the traditional dirge in Griko, an ancient language of Salento.
The rituals of the mourners, specialists of crying, are reconstructed in this splendid documentary that traces the tragedy of a death in the land of Salento in just ten minutes. The pain of death is felt individually, but shared by the community that sanctions its words and gestures. Pier Paolo Pasolini translates from the Greek dialect and reinterprets the song of death that accompanies the images of the rite.