A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate owned by a wealthy dowager. When he's told to take on her troubled great-niece as an apprentice, his life is thrown into chaos and dark secrets from his past emerge.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:01 The Nandina is a species of flowering plant
00:05 native to Eastern Asia.
00:08 The smell at certain times of the year
00:10 gives you a real buzz, like the buzz you get just
00:17 before pulling the trigger.
00:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:22 I have a favorite ask.
00:27 What is it?
00:28 My grandniece.
00:30 I would like you to take her home as an apprentice.
00:34 She dropped out of school, and then she
00:36 ended up in a bad crowd.
00:38 You'll learn how to garden.
00:40 Are you satisfied with the life that you have?
00:44 Why would you ask that?
00:47 You know, you talk a lot of shit,
00:48 but there's one thing you don't talk about.
00:51 What's that?
00:53 Yourself.
00:54 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:57 There's not much to know.
00:58 You put the deep six on nine bad guys.
01:03 Well, that was a long time ago.
01:07 Even if they're dead, you're not forgotten.
01:14 Have you ever killed anyone?
01:15 Why would you say that?
01:22 Take off your shirt.
01:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:27 You are impertinent.
01:30 Maya's just finding her own way.
01:31 And I'm the Queen of Scotland.
01:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:36 Gardening is a belief in the future,
01:41 a belief that things will happen according to plan.
01:45 Who did this to you?
01:46 What are you going to do?
01:49 Time to start a new life.
01:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:53 I have created this life.
01:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:00 Filled it with rules.
02:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:04 Now seems the time to break one.
02:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:10 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:14 [AUDIO OUT]
02:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]