The Fenland was devised and shot in close collaboration with a group of eight local fen landers, young men and women who live and work as market gardeners in the area of Saint Omer, Northern France. The film bears witness to a particular moment in time - a moment of recognition when these young agriculturalists, who belong to a relatively closed specific socio-economic group, ask themselves some hard practical questions about the social and economic problems facing their kind of agriculture
