An intimate investigation into a family that traces an ancestral agroforestry practice back to its roots: pruning trees.

When Sandra decides to spend summer at her family's country house, she doesn't expect to find the local villagers hostile. Determined to understand their reasons for this animosity, she slowly retraces her family's peasant roots to her ancestor Élie, who lived during the French Revolution and seems to be sending her, across the centuries, an oracular riddle about trimmed and pruned trees. What if this were a clue to some forgotten path of wisdom?