Inspired by a best selling novel by British author, Adrian Plass, BIRCHES tells the story of a prominent author/speaker who struggles to pick up the pieces of his life and start over after the untimely death of his young wife.

Alice visits the mind of Jules Verne and guides him through the visuals of his novels, as they discuss the nature of humanity and their fears.

Alice, while working at the London Royal Opera House, discovers the mind of Richard Wagner through his opera.

Mary traces the lives of a woman caught in a scandal of adultery, another rejected and ignored because of her promiscuity, a third shunned because of a shameful condition, and a widow cast out from society, mourning the loss of her only son.