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If the trees on this planet could talk, what would they tell us? An epic of human beings and nature, like "Walden" meets "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Over the centuries, the fates of characters from different races and countries are like the same tree. Underground are the cultural history of family traditions, and above ground are the branches of civilization in the new century. They meet, get acquainted, and fight for nature and life together. From the chestnut trees in the Brooklyn countryside, to the fusang legend in Eastern China, from scientists with language barriers, to the American pilot who fell into a tree during the Vietnam War, a paralyzed Indian game development programmer, a psychologist who doubts human nature, an engineer who has a mysterious relic and heard ancient legends, and a female college student who died. Nine unrelated stories from different countries and different eras finally come together.

After the death of his wife, astrobiologist Theo Byrne raised his son Robin, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, on his own, trying to establish order in the lives of father and son. Robin is warm and kind but sensitive and restless. He was labeled as "special care" by the school because of behavioral problems. Only the virtual planet and the outdoors modeled by Theo can calm him. Hoping to save Robin from the psychotropic drugs that ruined his childhood, Theo learns that an experimental neurofeedback therapy might improve Robin's emotional control. After receiving treatment, Robin was radiant with unprecedented vitality, but this beauty hid a mystery - it turned out that his wife's previously recorded brain nerve activity was guiding Robin. At the same time, the entire human world is crumbling: Frequent extreme climates, a wanton system, media that fan the flames, society and ecology are in a mess, and no one can survive alone. As a result, Theo lost his scientific research funding, and Robin could no longer receive treatment. The initial hope even became a boomerang that finally flew towards the father and son...