This is a visually poetic rumination on the relationship between fire and forests – environmentally, personally, economically. It includes interviews with interesting people and experts, as well as visual montages featuring folks who work with trees, with lumber, and with fire. The filmmaker suggests some new understandings are needed.

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?

This is a story about the feeling of stewardship- you’re meant to feel it in your heart first, and then your mind second.