The O'Neills lived cheerfully inside their house in the countryside. Before one day fate struck taking the life of Peter leaving his wife Dawn with their four children, that was. Among these, eight-year-old Simone denies that reality. She's persuaded that her father lives in the fig tree climbing in their house and speaks to her leaves. However, the tree grows increasingly more invasive and simplifies the home. It has to be felled. Naturally, it won't be allowed by Simone.