To recount the profound bond that unites trees and people, Erri De Luca – the narrative voice and guide for the film – starts from the exclamation of the blind man at Bethsaida, who when Christ returns his sight, after having wetted his eyes with saliva, exclaims: “I see men like trees that are walking”. Behind the simile, there is a question that is as simple as it is insidious: can the human race measure up to the vision of the blind man at Bethsaida?
A journey from Trentino to Puglia, along which there are encounters with woodcutters, string-instrument makers, writers, sculptors, naval engineers and inventors, united by their relationship with trees and wood and above all by a different vision of the world in which we live and the things that we use.