From the felling of surviving urban trees to the burning of trunks, this film confronts urgent environmental crises while provoking reflection on space occupation/transformation in a dying city—losing its trees, bodies, histories. Racial themes intersect with ecological ones: the same city erasing urban trees marginalizes traditional communities resisting at its edges.

I insist on existing
one day
I was forest
I could breathe

I insist on growing and rebirth

I insist

I have roots
and gashes
on my body

I am from here
I belong to this place
but history is ripped from the streets

I root
They cut me
I reborn
They cut me
I sprout
They cut me
I tree-body
in remnants
struggle to breathe

The city kills
burns my ancestors
our memory-ashes
thrown
into a common pit

I root
I reborn
I sprout
I tree-body
burn
and reborn

in remnants
of a city in ashes
dead

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