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The film discusses the subbituminous coal mining process from tree cutting to the renaturation of openpit mines Lusatian villages and with them the Sorbian culture have been mined for nearly 100 years 136 villages 125 of them SorbianGerman have disappeared since 1924 The film questions the equality of constitutional law and nature protection A pond where thousands of European firebellied toads Bombina bombina have been moved serves as an allegory of the lost villages while an acoustic metaphor for the missing balance between human rights and nature conservation could be found in alternating soundtracks European firebellied toad vs the background noise of an openpit mine