L'ordine delle cose

Guido is a gardener who has come back to live in the area where he was born, a dark, narrow valley.

Guido is like his valley: melancholy in a bad way and full of secrets, just like the gardens surrounded by high walls covered in ivy.

But despite his tendency towards solitude, the gardener gets caught up in another murder investigation and can’t resist searching for the truth.

Battling against stubborn climbing roses and planning elegant English-style borders; glasses of Barbera wine enjoyed in religious silence with his friend Osvaldo and just a few words exchanged with the valley’s other residents. That’s Guido’s life as a gardener and he likes it this way. Better than his past (an apartment in Paris and a job as a “nose” for a prestigious perfumery) – may it stay where it is and not come over the mountains of the Cervo Valley in Piedmont. This equilibrium, however, is disrupted by the visit of the police inspector, who requires some botanical advice. A woman has been murdered in the city: there are no clues except for a bag of seeds found in her pocket. Guido recognises some of these seeds easily, but others are a true mystery. What’s especially strange is that they all look like they belong to infesting plants, weeds, to be precise. This sparks Guido’s curiosity and he wants to know more about it, to step into this woman’s orderly, predictable life, possibly because, actually, she’s no stranger to him…