:08:02
When they return, they exchange clothing for potatoes.
:08:22
These hungry children...
:08:25
...are learning algebra.
:08:33
In some villages of Las Hurdes most of the children are orphans.
:08:37
They are abandoned children whom the women of Las Hurdes...
:08:40
...bring back from Public Assistance in Cuidad Rodrigo...
:08:43
...a two-day walk away across the hills.
:08:47
The women raise the children in exchange for 15 pesetas a month.
:08:51
This miserable sum is enough for an entire family...
:08:55
.. until the not-so-distant day when the practice is outlawed.
:09:05
An unexpected and shocking picture we saw in the school.
:09:08
Who could have made this absurd engraving?
:09:15
We opened at random a book of maxims we found on a table.
:09:18
One of the best students
writes on a slate...
:09:21
...one of the book's maxims.
:09:30
It's the same the world over: "Respect other people's property!"
:09:47
In this relatively fertile valley...
:09:49
...there are some walnut, cherry and olive trees.
:09:54
This is the village of Martilandran.
:09:56
The shapes between the trees,
resembling the shell of some mythical animal...