A landscape architect returns home to find her widowed father taking the forest to dinner. Learning how a woodland can consent to being loved becomes complicated when the town wants to clear it and her father refuses to speak for his new companion.
A town receives a formal complaint from the tree outside its courthouse, alleging decades of selective listening. A records clerk and an arborist must prove who is speaking for it while the public starts pinning grievances to branches that increasingly refuse to stay still.