Alma’s household has been producing high quality olive oil within the Baix Maestrat space of Spain’s Castellón for generations. But altering pressures within the trade have made their conventional practices economically untenable, and the household is now within the mass-production poultry enterprise. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Unhappiness envelopes him, and he now not needs to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, however Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the household has uprooted and offered to pay some money owed. (A sadly frequent actuality in Castellón at current.) Unable to bear the concept that her grandfather might die with out seeing this horrible improper corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to find the tree and return it to the household orchard, in order that her grandfather might have peace in his remaining days.
