In Red Branch, an old orchard keeper named Arthur Ownby gets in trouble with the law for resisting the government's intrusion on his life, symbolized by a tank they keep on his property.
In addtion, when Arthur Ownby discovers a corpse on his property and, instead of informing the police, decides to turn the pit in which the body was dumped into a kind of crypt. He covers it with trees to protect it from the elements and, probably, to symbolically separate it from himself.
The Orchard Keeper