Meeting old farmers from his home region, a filmmaker and free-time botanist learns about a dying relationship with fruit trees, which expands from memories and dreams to fantasy and myths. Inspired by their passion, he embarks on a journey that takes him from the valleys of the Slovenian-Italian borderland to the burned-down citrus orchards in Sicily and the gigantic wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Barcelona.
In the meantime, a Japanese scientist N. N. stumbles upon a bewildering document about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav scientists in the mid 1960s, the course of events linked with 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 increasingly existential. Human-centred perspective and its corresponding narratives that were previously held unequivocal start to attenuate. The question arises: do the humans cultivate fruits, or is it the other way around?