格蕾塔・童貝里十一歲時不進食也不說話,她的家人包括母親瑪蓮娜、父親斯萬提和妹妹碧雅塔因而面臨重大危機。瑪蓮娜和斯萬提調整工作與生活方式好專心照顧長女,進而發現她的抑鬱源自快速升溫的地球和岌岌可危的未來。受到格蕾塔探尋真相和追求改變的決心影響,童貝里一家意識到其家庭的痛苦和地球息息相關,為了解決家的問題必須採取全球行動。
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress: her imperilled future on a rapidly heating planet.
Steered by her determination to understand the truth, the family begins to see the deep connections between their own and the planet's suffering. Against forces that try to silence them, disparaging them for being different, they discover ways to strengthen, heal, and act in the world. And then one day, fifteen-year-old Greta decides to go on strike