Touching, gentle documentary, made by a woman about her parents and family, as the face the likely loss of the family farm to the awful economics of modern family farming. Done with a light touch that keeps humor alive, and keeps the film from ever becoming maudlin, it shows how sometimes life's twists and turns, even the bad ones, lead us to places that are OK after all.
If there's any weakness, it's that sometimes in avoiding the sentimental it misses a bit of the emotion. Also, the fascinating insight it provides into the economic realities of family farming (as opposed to the romantic idea so many outsiders have) gets slightly short shrift. It would be great to understand even more than the tantalizing bits here why so many farmers can't make it.
But overall this is a clear-eyed and intelligent first-person report on the plight of the small, non- corporate farmer in America.