Rough Journey

May 1930. A young French woman touches American soil for the first time. She comes to receive the inheritance of a forgotten uncle, who bequeaths to her thousands of hectares of land and a house lost in the heart of the forests of Maine, Pinewood. From this remote place, she decides to make a haven of peace for herself, for the immigrants she finds on her way, and for all those who have seen enough of the Great War. But quickly, she must face the evils that overwhelm the United States in these troubled times: the smugglers of the region, the Ku Klux Klan, the racism, and the ordinary sexism that she experiences daily. She learns to face her enemies, choose her allies, and make ramparts of mountains and forests, to protect her dreams. The different chapters are named after the titles of old songs, rather than from Appalachia, which punctuates the lives of the protagonists.