Some heavy reading on the ecological and climate emergency leads Cedric a fortysomething painter living in Paris to question his life choices. In a state of vulnerability racked with ecoanxiety he is ed by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau writer environmentalist and the author of Walden. Two centuries separate Cedric from the author who depressed by the narrow materialism of industrialised America retreated to a singleroom cabin in the woods by Walden Pond. But as their Socratic dialogue con