Two elderly women are talking by the fire in an old kitchen, remembering times gone by and stressing the changes that have occurred in community life over the decades. In the mean time they prepare a meal based on a roast potatoes which has to be brought later to a place in the mountains where the men are working. We are in the municipality of Commezzadura in Val di Sole, north-western Trentino. We go from autumn to winter, when transportation in the valley is by sled («bazeghine»). In the end no one will be left by the fire to prepare those simple, old-fashioned dishes.