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The film captures the help and efforts of Czech experts in the creation of the Aragvi Protected Landscape Area. The project entitled “Implementation of Sustainable Forestry” is the result of a partnership between the Czech Republic and Georgia within the framework of foreign development cooperation. The main theme of the film is to introduce the uninitiated public to what is hidden under the relatively sophisticated name. Through the team led by Ing. Tadeáš Štěrba, viewers will get to an exotic area – the foothills of the Greater Caucasus. Right in the challenging terrain, they can get acquainted with the work of individual specialists – typologists, botanists, forest ecology specialists, etc., about whose work the majority of the lay public knows very little. The roots from which the future Protected Landscape Area is to grow, however, include not only nature, but also people, as the entire area has been a home for people since ancient times. Therefore, important aspects of local culture are also emphasized in the film – for example, in the person of the writer and poet Važo Pšavela. Already in his work, the relationship to the local nature is very much emphasized. The painter, writer and ethnographer Shota Arabuli provides information about the original inhabitants of the Aragvi Valley in the film. They are also important for understanding historical displacement - the return of people to the area is one of the goals of the project and the PLA. In this context, the film depicts a forest education lesson for Georgian children, an interesting motif for the audience. Its aim is to think about the youngest, who should not leave the Aragvi area in the future. The aim of the documentary film is to show how a project (and similar projects) focused on a certain area can help Georgia in its development, but above all, the local people who do not want to leave the places where they were born, and how to preserve this area in an unchanged form in the future.