In the midst of Redwood Summer in 1990, twenty-five year old visual artist, Sapphire Larson, sets out to resurrect the hippie father who vanished under a cloud of patchouli oil fifteen years earlier. Not only a peace activist, but a prophet and Hollywood actor, the mythological father of her childhood holds the key to her success as an adult - or so Sapphire believes.Acting on a tip, she hitchhikes to the World Peace and Healing gathering. From tribal drumming at midnight, to women's healing circles by day, Sapphire ignores the lessons the universe is trying to teach her while she struggles to reconstruct her childhood by finding her father.Waning MoonShe befriends a pregnant environmental activist from California's lost coast, Lauren, whose own dreams of glory in the Redwood Forest are crumbling as her waistline is expanding. Vietnam Veteran Grizzly Bear Garth, haunted by the blood on his own hands, has tried to absolve himself by apprehending evil at the gathering. He befriends Sapphire and his stab at fathering her backfires when he reveals truths that destroy Sapphire's dreams 'of how things should be' forever.Lurking in the shadows is Mole, the troubled young man Sapphire befriends. Ignoring her own instincts that Mole's troubles run deep, Sapphire fails to intervene before tragedy strikes.Peopled with flamboyant characters and mystical settings, in an alternative culture that emphasis self-reliance and opposes authority, Sapphire's journey of discovery helps her find her place in this world.
Pounding drums in the woods, a missing father, and a glimpse into the world of peace and healing gatherings unite in Falling From The Moon. Two young women face the harsh realities of growing up surrounded by direct action, marijuana culture, and baking bread in the woods.
25-year old Sapphire embarks on a quest to find her father, who vanished when she was ten and who, she believes, holds the key to her future. Her journey takes her to a peace and healing gathering where a community of counter-culture characters dispense advice and marijuana around late-night campfires. Along the way she hooks up with, Lauren, a pregnant environmental activist from California's North Coast trying to imagine a future that leaves her on the sidelines of tree sits and chaining herself to bulldozers, a Vietnam veteran with blood on his hands dedicated to helping others, and a teenage boy with mental health problems. Together, they create a future out of tragedy.
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