A painter returns from Paris to his childhood home in rural France.

Together they experience the world in a new light, in a slow, gentle and ultimately very moving unfolding of a relationship.

The gardener's occasional stomach cramps are identified as cancer and soon he passes away.

The painter takes the insights his friend has given him and shares them through an art exhibition.

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