正在哥伦比亚大学攻读博士的萨拉·奥本多年以来一直都是亲戚长辈口中“别人家的孩子”,尽管她的加纳移民血统让她在满是白人的校园中显得有些另类,但优秀的成绩总能让她在学业上无往不利。她做了一个叛逆的决定——放弃自己的分子神经肿瘤学学位,和男友一起前往俄亥俄州开始新生活。然而,萨拉母亲的猝然去世打乱了她的一切规划,她突然得到了家里的住宅和书店作为遗产,还必须按照加纳的传统来操办母亲的葬礼。天降的责任和不确定性让她措手不及,接下来的日子里,她应该何去何从?。When Isabella Tree and her husband arrived at the rural estate they had inherited and saw the vast swathes of farmland that came with it, they immediately saw how sick the land was—entire habitats destroyed, bird and plant species gone extinct, fields saturated with chemicals. The experiment they decided to undertake was extreme: To heal nature, they had to let it heal itself. ...。