Life and Death in the Woods

A woodland building project unearths truths that might otherwise have remained hidden, and causes people to question aspects of themselves and others that they hadn't taken any notice of before.More or less against his will, Max, a curator in a small university museum of natural history, becomes involved in a project to create a museum of trees in the woods on the outskirts of a town in central Scotland. He has a fraught relationship with two other members of the project group, Philippa and Keith, and with his ex-wife Tricia, but he finds an unexpected kindred spirit in Janice, who works in a sandwich shop not far from the woods, and also enjoys sparky encounters with Samantha, a reporter who is too inquisitive for her own good. Philippa urges the team on in their efforts to drive the project forward, despite the news that a police investigation is taking place at the proposed museum site following the discovery of a body.