In the name of the trees,
I retrieve us from hurt and sickness.

Four generations of women named after trees refuse to be cut down: Banaba, Narra, Pili and Dao. Between the Philippines and Australia, these hardwood women defy their colonial inheritance and try to heal. Their rifts are deep, their heartbreaks more wounding. They tell stories to hide, evade, or make truth bearable.

But trees remember.
They do not lie.
Knowing is resistance.