Unaided and inexperienced, a crew of four venture through the most rural and inaccessible natural areas of Chile.
Follows conservationists throughout southern Appalachia as they struggle to manage two of the most important national forests in America - the Pisgah and Nantahala. The film revolves around the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest Plan, a plan the US Forest Service is finalizing that will dictate how these two national forests are managed for the next twenty years. The result is a meditation on our relationship to nature, our role in managing lands and what it may mean for the future.
Joe Hollis, an iconic mountain man, has lived off the grid for fifty years at the foot of the highest mountains in the East. Creating what he calls a "paradise garden", his land boasts over a thousand different species including many that can't be found anywhere else in the country. As health problems arise, Joe struggles to ensure his land and legacy survive into the future.
