The film charts the escalating conflict from passive-aggressive glances at the local bar to vandalism, intimidation, and finally, an act of horrific, irreversible violence. Sorogoyen does not offer catharsis. He offers a tragedy.
Sorogoyen, working with longtime co-writer , uses the film to explore deep-seated social and environmental tensions:
Rodrigo Sorogoyen has crafted a film that asks a terrifying question: If you strip away laws, police, and social media, what are you? The French idealist thinks he is a shepherd. The Galician farmer thinks he is a king. As Bestas suggests that, in the end, we are all just animals fighting over a carcass.
