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 this secretive imaginaria, 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 stumbles upon a puzzling document about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav scientists in the mid 1960s, the enigmatic course of events linked with a fast-growing pear tree challenges all her presumptions about nature's ability to defy the passing of time.
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 this secretive imaginaria, 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 stumbles upon a puzzling document about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav scientists in the mid 1960s, the enigmatic course of events linked with a fast-growing pear tree challenges all her presumptions about nature's ability to defy the passing of time.