Your reaction to this film will likely depend on your own values. The individuals shown in this film have come to where they are through personal and financial loss, and must perform sometimes degrading, low-income, seasonal jobs to survive, while contending with pity, incomprehension, and even anger from those still within mainstream society. Yet their lifestyle is a conscious choice. Most of the "performers" in the film are true nomads who have made this choice in real-life.
My husband considered the film depressing, because he could not bear to live in the conditions lived by the people in the film. What he, and others, saw is a film about a woman forced into a "homeless" nomadic lifestyle by economic hardship, scraping by. I found the film uplifting, because in my view, this film was about a lifestyle choice being discovered and eventually embraced, despite the pressures from mainstream society to return to their fold.
My husband considered the film depressing, because he could not bear to live in the conditions lived by the people in the film. What he, and others, saw is a film about a woman forced into a "homeless" nomadic lifestyle by economic hardship, scraping by. I found the film uplifting, because in my view, this film was about a lifestyle choice being discovered and eventually embraced, despite the pressures from mainstream society to return to their fold.