This powerful ecological fable is based on the true story of internationally renowned Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado.

"Sebastião took planes, ships, and trains. He traveled the rails that had made him want to see the world when he was a boy, but now he traveled them in reverse. In dreams he saw the farm, the fields of corn, rice, and tomatoes, the herds of cattle with their gleaming flanks. He saw his forest, the great river. He thought he had returned to what he had left behind." The famous journalist Sebastião Salgado decides to go back to his childhood home. But a monstrous surprise awaits him: the forest is gone. Not a trace remains. With help from his old friends and the few locals who haven't left, he decides to replant the entire forest...