The old gardener works day to night in harmony with the nature’s rhythm and the wisdom of the ancient Latvian lives. His happiness and fulfilment is a garden, which no longer belongs to him, but he feels like it does. He speaks to the garden, and it responds, giving him shelter and a rich harvest. Autumn arrives and garden work becomes more and more, but he stubbornly continues to work. The gardener realizes that because of the rush and enormous amount of work he hasn’t done it all. Younger house owners, desiring to make the gardener’s life easier, get a new gardener. Old gardener’s love of garden and an unwillingness to share it with anyone makes him decide an inevitable decision to stay in the garden of his family forever. Poetically symbolic story of the disappearing time, the land and the modern reality.
“The love story of the Old Gardener and his garden - a requiem of the Latvia's countryside and the previous generation's work, values and the traditions of their ancestors. Birth and death, nature's unstoppable cycle through love and unescapable pain of separation. I made this poetic story about the time passing by, change of generation and values on the cycling background of the 21st century. I miss the land my grandparents owned and told me about when I was a child. I had to transfer this feeling of an always changing world in this small story, had to share it with you.” – director Madara Dišlere.
