Julia finds out she is suffering from a life threatening disease. Awad, a film director, was kidnapped by the militia, kept imprisoned and tortured. Herman, a stage designer, is plagued by nightmares. Sandu, a gardener, spent his childhood living in institutional homes. Omar fled the inferno of the Syrian war with his wife and children. A garden becomes the stage for its protagonists and a childhood paradise – a nightmare, a prison and a scene of war.