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?