The Last Council tells the story of 13 old ladies, native grandmothers and charismatic ambassadors of oral civilisations: living libraries, keepers of long forgotten traditions, each of these grandmothers is the image of a culture. They come from Central Africa, Nepal, Tibet, North and South America. They talk about their commitment to the cause of ecology and earth preservation, adressing women of every generation, sharing, through their vision of what it is to be a woman, the knowledge of ancestral traditions.