For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of his work, FIRE SEASON evokes the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - fires; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings, awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn.