Orchard of Unsent Goodbyes

Written by Michael Dione Starling

Narrated by Micheal Carter

Length

1h 59m

In a quiet orchard by the sea, a woman tends to the trees her family left behind — each one named after a person she never had the courage to forgive. Every pruning cut, every season of fruit and frost, becomes a conversation with absence: the letters she never sent, the voices that once filled the branches. As she works, fragments of memory return — a lost brother, a forgotten promise, a mother’s unfinished song. The orchard becomes her confession, her prayer, and her reckoning. Lyrical and deeply introspective, Orchard of Unsent Goodbyes is a meditation on how we grow around loss — not away from it. It asks what remains when words are never spoken, and whether tending what’s living can redeem what’s gone.