A Black woman named Erin returns to her childhood farm home with her boyfriend, Caleb. She remembers all the times she would climb the giant pear tree in the yard as a child. She also remembers the last time she brought Caleb to her home, and he complained the whole time.

She goes over to climb the pear tree, and Caleb continuously admonishes her, telling her she will fall and that she should come down. She recalls that she has only fallen once, when she was ten, and the tree caught her before she hit the ground. She climbs higher and higher, reaching for a ripe pear, when she suddenly slips and falls. The tree catches her once again. 

Caleb is angry with her, and asks if she saw the man hanging in the tree. She didn’t see the man, but she saw his rope when she was little. She explains the bad things that happened here will never go away, but this land will always be her family’s. They’ve reclaimed it, and how it will always take care of them. She walks over to her family and eats her pear.