RAINTREES

Published on September 27, 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted humanity to the existential threat of disrupting nature. For the most part, even if there was a show of protest, it carried on regardless.Raintrees is the story of two of the hundreds of thousands of flawed, oblivious humans born on that day, one in Singapore, and one in England, and their eventual struggle for justice.They battle a predominantly male status quo, but women are not beyond reproach in "an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged,” to quote Carson.