The Roots of Heaven (Twilight Time) DVD The alternative US opening titles The alternative US opening titles Katia is his girlfriend and a willing travel companion John Huston's adventure packed adaptation of Romain Gary's Prix Goncourt winning novel takes a prescient look at an early eco warrior (Trevor Howard) waging a battle to preserve the elephant herds of French Equatorial Africa With the colonial government and bloodthirsty ivory hunters aligned against him he joins forces with a motley band of rebels including a jovial but perpetually hammered ex military man (Errol Flynn) and a world weary bar girl (Juliette Greco) in a courageous effort to save the last wild things of this Earth