In Central Kalimantan, the forest is both home and memory. For generations, Indigenous Dayak communities have shaped their lives around its rhythms, cultivating the land and gathering what it provides. Today, this relationship is under increasing pressure. Palm-oil plantations, mining, logging and urban expansion are transforming the territory, while traditional ways of life slowly give way to a more settled existence. At the heart of this transformation are Dayak women, custodians of land, food and cultural knowledge. Their daily gestures trace a fragile continuity between past and present. In 2026, an intense El Niño is deepening drought across Kalimantan, threatening harvests, drying rivers and fuelling forest fires. The landscape becomes a testimony to a delicate balance between fertility and exhaustion, resilience and loss.