ROOTED IN PEACE challenges viewers to examine their values as Americans, and as human beings. Today we are at war within ourselves, with our environment, and with the world, and it’s up to each of us to make peace with ourselves, and our planet. Employing both memoir and interviews with such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love, and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, media mogul Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, green architect William McDonough, neuroscientist Dan Siegel and many others, Reitman heeds former guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s words: “If the forest is to be green, every tree must be green, if there’s going to be Peace on earth than everybody must need to feel that quality of Peace” Reitman poses the basic question: How do we want to live? And asks viewers to do the same.