An allegory contemplating the nuances of forest stewardship and the interconnectedness of monoculture tree farms with Canada's current wildfire crisis.

Our relationship with forests is at a breaking point. After two centuries of industrial logging and colonial forestry practices we seem to not even have a grasp of what forest stewardship should really look like. All too often, we over simplify and anthropomorphize nature which leaves us with a contradictory understanding of the forest's true complexion. How can we really empathize with a being whose lifetime often spans ten times the length of ours?

What if fire was actually good for the forest? What if the way we plant trees is actually bad? What if the warming climate wasn't the sole reason for Canada's wildfire crisis, but merely a part of the myriad of problems all stemming from industrial scale forestry practices? What if fighting fires was actually part of the problem? What if the real 'bad guy' of forestry was all of us, and our consumer culture's insatiable demand for a resource which most of us take for granted?

The challenging part about making this film was attempting to address all of this nuance without getting lost in the details or telling anyone what to think. This is a story about the feeling of stewardship- you're meant to feel it in your heart first, and then your mind second.