Meeting old farmers from his home region, Slovenian filmmaker and a free-time botanist develops a deep curiosity in people's passionate relationship with their fruit trees. He realises this relationship has a lot to do with the sense of time and gets especially intrigued about the fact how even just thinking about fruits activates imagination.
In the meantime, in Tokyo, a plant neurobiologist stumbles upon a strange manuscript about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav agronomists in the mid 1960s, the descriptions of a fast-growing pear tree challenges all her presumptions about nature's ability to defy the passing of time.
By investigating the heritage of fruit cultivation and the collective memories fruits hold within people, the respective journeys of two strangers become strangely interconnected and increasingly existential.
Human-centred perspective and its corresponding narratives that were previously held self-evident start to attenuate. The question arises: do the humans cultivate fruits, or is it perhaps the other way around?