We meet the gardener in his childhood home in Kansas where a storm is brewing and his dad is sprinkling holy water, just in case. Back in the Bay Area, he finds some peace with the opossums and employs the fruits of his midwestern childhood.

A chance meeting with his ex in the Berkeley Bowl sets the gardener up for some emotional wrangling. When he learns his neighbor Rita has a beehive in her garden, he fears he could get stung—then again, the bees just might help cultivate more succulent fruit.

The gardener rescues a whispering statue and ponders her place in his garden.

The gardener is at first shocked and critical when his friend Rita turns up with unnaturally red locks. In pondering makeovers, hibernation and rejuvenation, he takes us to a trailhead in Albuquerque and, of course, into his rain-soaked garden.

The gardener finds something “stink-eee” in his garden while pondering how memory is lost and found.