This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from "Walden," "Civil disobedience," "Walking," and Thoreau's journals to tell the story of his two years in the woods and of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.

Thoreau discusses his philosophy of life and observatio of nature written while spending two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.