Julia learns that the record for longest tree-sit is 43 days. Fully aware that breaking such a record could bring media attention to the forest, she vows to stay in the tree well-past the end of her initial two-week commitment. Charles Hurwitz, the Texas millionaire who owns Pacific Lumber, encourages his loggers to step-up production despite the cries of protest from the woods.

This award-winning documentary reveals the extraordinary transformation and spiritual journey of a 23-year-old woman who climbed 200 feet up into a redwood tree and lived there for two years in order to save the thousand-year-old-tree from destruction. Julia lived on a platform the size of a coffee table, survived the ordeal of menacing helicopters, and was nearly blown off the tree and thrown to the forest floor by 90 MPH winds. As a result of her courageous act of civil disobedience, Julia is the youngest person thus far inducted into the Ecology Hall of Fame.