A four year tree planter/filmmaker seeks out a near mythological figure in the tree planting industry. Along his way he meets a man who planted 15170 trees in one day, a counter-cultural captain of industry, failed radicals of the 1960's, a respected international artist whose planting inspired photographs sold to the Guggenheim, a fifty six year old ice climber, a cast of young bohemians, a spurned motel owner, and finally Franz Otto himself.