Noah, a young non-communicative rambunctious autistic boy finds solace in his dreams by day and night. A Celtic singing sorceress allows the boy to create a parallel universe to help him cope with his troubling world. Approaching adolescence, Noah's single mother is seeking whether to institutionalize him as he is getting to be too hectic and chaotic for her to handle. Noah finds a way to reach further into to his autistic realm through songs the sorceress writes for him. Noah begins to develop his musical skills but he is in a race for his life to show the doctor and his mother that moving to an institution will destroy him. The race is on to see if an imaginary figure can reveal his hidden gift to the world in time to be able to live in the outside world. Does fantasy really exist? Is music real?
A Celtic "Vision Singer", a mystical sorceress, is singing to the autistic boy in whose imagination she lives. Burning Woods tells the story of how a boy's imagination conjures his own musical ability through a mythical character who saves his life, through song.