Through a series of interconnected portraits, Wild Plants paints the picture of a new movement: like the “wild plants” that give the title of the film, which seed themselves in abandoned land and create new habitats, the people in this film are abandoning the comforts of consumer society to create new ways of being together in the world. Whether based in Detroit, Geneva, Zurich, or elsewhere in the world, they are the vanguard of a new breed of discrete activists for whom plants are “politically affiliated comrades,” as one of them explains. These revolutionary farmers try to effect change from niche positions. The outcome of their efforts is a micro-revolution at the heart of which is a vision of the Earth as a fundamental resource for life. Their subdued form of resistance is a long process through which they take distance from a consumerist world and relearn to appreciate the beauty of little things.