"Creton’s vision of unruly desires in the French countryside is literate and oblique." — Manuel Betancourt, Variety
"That passion could bloom in such spontaneous and unexpected forms is part of this enigmatic film’s potency." — Beatrice Loayza, The New York Times
Pierre-Joseph goes to an apprenticeship college to train as a gardener. There he meets a series of characters – Francoise Brown, the principal, Alberto, his botany teacher, and Adrien, his employer – who will prove decisive in his apprenticeship story and in unleashing his sexuality. Forty years later Kutta appears, Francoise Brown’s adoptive child whom he has heard so much about but never met. But Kutta, who is now the owner of a strange chateau, seems to be looking for more than just a gardener.