After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Daniel Auteil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he...
After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Daniel Auteil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he grew up in. Noticing the house’s once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, he hires a local gardener (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) to knock it back into shape. To their surprise, the two men discover they were once childhood buddies whose lives took very different paths when they were expelled from junior school for a prank.
While the vegetable garden grows, they rekindle their friendship, discussing all nature of topics, from the painter’s dissolving marriage to the relative merits of lettuce. But as summer inevitably turns to autumn and the garden begins to bear fruit, so too does their friendship face the sad trials of growing old.
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