This film tells the story of a timeless tradition whereby each year a Swiss pine is cut down, baptised, decorated and burned in Grauno, Trentino, to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. The star of this ritual and the documentary is the tree. For mountain folk, trees have always been a spiritual rather than a physical world; the Pin de carneval (Carnival Pine) is proof of how a mountain community manages to maintain a tradition, the origin of which binds the inhabitants of Grauno with their land. The film reveals how today’s people need to create community rituals that help each of them feel at one with nature, just as previous generations did.