 The cycle goes round and round, and all the time the customs and the landscape are so colourful and beautiful, with prominent and striking use of music by Michael Tippett (Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli), but with the skull-like menace of poverty, entrapment and war grinning through the veil of rural beauty.Will Tom be defeated by the land and the hard work, just as his grandfather was?Shand plays all three generations, grandfather, father and son.