The story begins with Bella's childhood.
Bella, when she was a baby, was abandoned in a carton in the park,
The ducks in the lake regarded her as if they were their own.
Later a madman found her and took her to church.
When she grew up, Bella had a lonely personality, like living in a dark tunnel,
She was afraid of nature and plants and found them elusive.
Like regularity, even a little obsessive-compulsive,
For example, the carrots and peas are arranged equally into a plate rim, and the card is enjoyed;
Repeatedly push and pull the locked door, and the used plastic bag should be clipped and hung on the wall.
Wrap yourself in dark clothes for years and enclose yourself in a stable corner of your own creation.
Bella's best friend is a book hidden in a sheet lit up with a flashlight.
She wanted to be a children's book writer.
During the day, I organize books in a library and write at night.
Temporarily missing inspiration, he never knocked her hand down.
Bella meets Billy, a mechanical fan boy, in the library and finds some marks on the straw paper he forgot on his desk.
So he carefully took it home and smeared it with pencil powder,
Carefully examine the lines on the paper, which looks like a flying bird.
At this time, the window suddenly slammed violently, and the wind outside the house suddenly blew,
The wind broke into the window and dragged away the budding love in Bella's hand.
She put on her helmet and went chasing after the back garden in the lightning and thunder, accidentally fell down, and was saved by neighbor Alfie.
Alfie was short-tempered and usually yelled at his cook, Vernon, and pointed fingers.
In the face of the injured Bella, he also acted indifferent,
She was quite angry, thinking that the plant that had been hurt by her was the real victim.
The next day, he went to her garden to take photos and collect evidence, hoping to report her cruelty to the garden.
The landlord who received the complaint quickly came to the door and ordered Bella to repair the garden within three weeks, or else she would be driven out.
In the face of the landlord's warning and Alfie's nagging, Bella was a little breathless, and on impulse she hired Vernon, a private chef who had been fired by Alfie.
Alfie, who had lost her chef, lost her appetite and even planted a melancholy blue iris in the thin-necked vase on the table.
Sandwiched in the middle, Vernon offers to continue cooking for Alfie, but only if he helps Bella build a garden.
At this point in the story, Bella began her garden renovation.
Alfie first gave Bella a gardening book with a handwritten note:
"Build a garden,
Start by cultivating interest,
Soon, gardening will be the love of your life,
You can jump into it right away and just get out into the yard. “
Clean up the debris on the ground, like dead branches and barren grass.
The weeds buried in the ground are uprooted, and they are time bombs left in the ground.
Bella's hoe was like an eraser that finally removed the desolation, and the bare ground was exposed in front of her, which was a little overwhelming for a while.
In the face of her concerns, Alfie advised her: "The blank canvas gives you the opportunity to decorate at will." ”
He said and led her into his garden, as if he were coming to the treasure cabinet.
Alfie walked briskly in front of her, pointing to this and then to that.
The flowers in the garden seemed to be crowded in his mouth, and they had to be spit out quickly.
Alfie patiently guided Bella to design the garden,
Bella was already a little tired of doing this,
Lie flat in the garden with your hands crossed on your abdomen.
Alfie pointed to the wild strawberries next to Bella's head:
"The life of nature is ready at any time,
They absorb sunlight and try to survive, as they always have. ”
Bella began to conceive her garden on white paper:
Here should be able to receive 5 hours of light a day,
You can leave 60 cm to plant lilies.
Next to it you can dig another 30 cm deep pool...
Under the influence of Alfie, Bella's attitude towards plants changed from disgust to cherishing.
The two also have many memories of building the garden together.
In the rainy weather, I rushed forward to cover the wild strawberries with a drinking bucket at the bottom.
He and Bella at first glance looked like odd and prickly people,
But it's like two gears that fit together.
You can make each other's lives come alive,
Gardening became the lubricant on their rusty gears.
Rain together in the garden when it rains.
Alfie's wife died young, he was childless, and Bella was like a daughter arranged by Heaven for him.
At the end of the film, Alfie dies of an onset of illness.
Bella finally has her own garden,
He also gained his own love.
She holds birthday dinners with friends in the garden and shares the stories she has created.
In the afternoon sun, she no longer wore only dark clothes, but changed into a pink shirt.
Tell stories to friends and children under the maple trees that Alfie asked to plant.
Three men, three types.
Billy is the boyfriend, the lover, the husband;
The cook is the older brother, the male girlfriend, the blue face;
The old man was the father, the mentor, the leader.
Or in this precious human world, we are born lonely, but have the opportunity to be healed.