After years of living abroad, 39-year-old Ali has returned to Iran. As he struggles between preserving his drying garden and saving his childless marriage, his mother dies. Unable to grieve, Ali grows even more bitter toward his father.
He opens up to his new enigmatic gardener Reza about the suspicious circumstances of his mother’s death and his deteriorating relationship with his wife. Soon they form a solid bond. However, Reza does not share much about his past.
Ali refuses to see a fertility doctor and instead focuses on questioning his mother’s death. Soon he learns that his father was
beating his mother. Reza encourages him to take revenge, but Ali does not have the guts. Reza initiates the act: at dawn, they bury
the father alive.
Right after, the boundaries of reality and fantasy are blurred. Reza and Ali now must cover up for the murder and navigate the family dynamic as new stories scatter doubts about the father, the past, and possibly, the future.