For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the California redwood forest. But their logging town is wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life.

A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.