Douiret, an Amazigh village in southern Tunisia, is largely defined by “absence”. Two relatives embark on a journey to explore its meaning, but while one wants to leave for Tunis, the other wants to return to Douiret. The flock of sheep they inherit becomes their cure and answer, the pain and curse, and meanwhile peasant poetries chronicle peasant liminalities between the rural and the urban. In this collaboration, we follow two livestock keepers, two relatives, in southern Tunisia, Douiret, in their own exploration of absence-presence. We use experimental methods to narrate some of the ways the peasantry blurs the boundaries between absence and presence. Livestock are linked to aspirations, with emotional, psychological and health implications for their carers. Mobility, and how livelihoods are constructed around livestock holds important information on how we internalize our liminal identities. Peasant poetry and oral heritage more generally often explores these aspects. As an art of making memory, they can become potentially powerful tools to reclaiming peasant spaces. This is relevant to food sovereignty, and the politics of boundary-making, whether real and physical/material or intangible and conceptual.