Mysteriously lyrical and brutally realistic, this short documentary explores a curious world containing the “forest queen.” But who is she really, this eccentric elderly woman who lives alone in a hut in an Estonian forest, with three beautiful white dogs her sole companions? Through the harsh winter and softening spring, the viewer gradually learns through a poet’s words and the film’s images. A documentary that enchants and then shakes one awake, Forest Queen unfolds in brief exposures and amazing language the story of an unusual woman who gave up—or lost—a comfortable life to find something else, both painful and beautiful.