In a world where the soil has turned against its keepers, seventeen-year-old Riku tends the last living cherry trees on Earth. They're all that remain of his grandfather's farm—and of the world that used to be. When a desperate stranger named Rafa appears at the edge of his land, their uneasy alliance sets them on a journey across the dying American West in search of a place where life might begin again.

Haunted by loss and bound by a fragile hope, Riku and Rafa face what's left of civilization—ruined cities, fractured governments, and the powerful Unity regime, determined to control whatever still grows. But between violence and silence, they find something unexpected: connection, resilience, and the quiet defiance of choosing care in a world built on control.

Told with lyrical prose and cinematic intensity, The Last Cherry Orchard is a post-collapse love story about what survives when everything else fades—memory, trust, and the stubborn beauty of life itself.

For readers of Emily St. John Mandel, Neal Shusterman, and The Giver, this tender, hopeful novel asks one timeless question:
When the world ends, what do you keep alive?