El gato del jardinero

The storm that has just devastated the Provençal countryside is the last straw for Louis, a hypersensitive gardener unable to face any more trials, who has retreated into a painful silence. But a woman has just moved into the house across the street: Thalie, a cheerful, recently retired literature professor with a radiant imagination. The extraordinary woman proposes a deal: Louis will help her restore the olive trees and oleanders in her battered garden, and in return, she will initiate him into the powers of poetry. By exploring the verses of Sappho to T. S. Eliot, passing through Pessoa, García Lorca, Gaspara Stampa, Pavese, Rimbaud, Neruda or Lady Mary Worttley, Thalie will help him to regain his voice and faith in the universe.