Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family—a poised French matriarch and the son she raised among her vines—tends a centuries-old, biodynamic vineyard in the Southern Rhône. Across the ocean in Humboldt, California, another family—a brash father and his more restrained son—carefully manages a state-legal, sun-grown, organic cannabis farm.

Weed & Wine interweaves their stories, urging comparisons between France’s revered winemaking traditions and the emergent legal cannabis industry. The film observes tensions ebb and flow as, on each farm, one generation prepares to pass on the torch to the next. Two sets of farmers, separated by vast gulfs of culture, language, law and legacy, navigate a common challenge: how to bear the burdens of history—and change—on their land.