Within the living matter of the garden, among the leaves and thorns, prayer-poems emerge. Garden maintenance becomes an ethical dilemma; pruning becomes a question of fragile ecosystems and the site’s memory—where community, cleanliness, and beautification confront vegetal time and its reverberations.
Within the living matter of the garden, among the leaves and thorns, prayer-poems emerge. Garden maintenance becomes an ethical dilemma; pruning becomes a question of fragile ecosystems and the site’s memory—where community, cleanliness, and beautification confront vegetal time and its reverberations.
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.