Eleven-year-old Emma doesn't know that she comes from generations of
tree singers, passed from mother to daughter. She doesn't believe she
can sing. Her ailing grandmother has just come to live with the family.
Her father is hardly ever at home. Her mother has been acting strange.
To add to Emma's troubles, her mother's great uncle from England is
coming to stay. Then, a strange old woman wearing a hat full of feathers
appears mysteriously in her garden. She gives Emma a white swan feather
that emits a haunting melody. Emma's only solace is the oak tree in her
garden, which she names Annie Oakley. What she does not yet know is that
Annie is part of a network of tree spirits who disguise themselves as
old women. These spirits have come to Peachtree City to help Emma
remember her mission to sing the Song of Creation and save the Great
Mother tree.