The Tree Officer is a stop-motion animated comedy shot in a documentary style. Set in the Tree Officer’s department of a town council, it focuses on the day-to-day running of the office, and in particular the Tree Officer, Gary Dremmel.

Passionate about botany and horticulture, Gary is wearied by the endless requests from the town’s citizens for trees to be cut down. Resigned to his fate, he signs his daily quota of death warrants with an air of droll melancholy, assisted by his two colleagues: Matt, a sardonic temp with a stapling addiction; and Avril, a dedicated worker with an unreliable arm and a dysfunctional relationship with technology.