Rachel Carson, best-selling author of The Sea Around Us, has been called the patron saint of the environmental movement. She was a quiet biologist who shook the world with her revelations about America's misuse of pesticides in the years following WWII. Joseph Blanco tells her story through two reenacted interviews during the last year of her life as she battles cancer and her critics in the wake of publishing Silent Spring -- an exposé on America’s overuse of chemicals. As a result of her research, America gained a Clean Air Act, a Clean Water Act, a National Environmental Policy Act, and numerous other pieces of legislation designed to protect and preserve our natural world.