The Last Giants

Colleen and Rich Gundersen live with their young son Chub on the coast of Northern California. It's 1977, and life in this forested region is increasingly difficult. For generations, timber has supported the entire community, but today this way of life is threatened. Although uncertified, Colleen is a midwife. Rich is one of those tree surgeons who works at the top of the trees. It's a dangerous profession, one that both his father and grandfather died in. He wants a better life for his family. To achieve this, he secretly invested all their savings in a plot of centuries-old redwoods. But when Colleen, who wants to have a second child despite losing a baby during her last pregnancy, begins to denounce the logging company's practices and the spraying of herbicides that she believes are responsible for numerous miscarriages in the region, she and Rich find themselves on opposing sides. Praised by Stephen King and the entire American press, Ash Davidson has created a sweeping, powerful and earth-shattering fresco with this moving text.