A detective has been advised to check her cynical disposition, a product of dealing in death. A Neanderthal woman struggles to place her feelings in the modern world. A modern man reckons with his wife’s murder by his own hand. The emotional estrangement that variously afflicts each of these characters is overseen by wild swine, whose superior capacity for survival affords them divine status.

Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.

Stuart MacKillop worked for a diverse range of iconic stars in the Seventies and Eighties, touring with the likes of Abba, Tina Turner and the punk band The Stranglers. On seeing that a 6000-year-old Neolithic Standing Stone which played a significant part in his childhood in Argyll and Bute had slipped into the depths of the meandering course of the River Ruel, he sets out on a journey to find the stone, and gains a greater understanding of himself and his relationship to the landscape.

In this personal essay documentary, the director reflects on her journey of getting diagnosed with endometriosis through observing the invasive Japanese Knotweed. While both the disease and the plant grow disruptively through their respective environments, one is treated with urgency while the other is met with inaction.