What the Garden Knows
Ruth's son has arrived with a folder and a plan to sell the family home. She wants him to leave the house, and her late husband's roses, alone. But every argument she reaches for is one she has already lost.
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Ruth's son has arrived with a folder and a plan to sell the family home. She wants him to leave the house, and her late husband's roses, alone. But every argument she reaches for is one she has already lost.
It is three in the morning and a caller wants to be let into the building to see his sister. Sam, the night concierge, has a procedure and intends to follow it. The trouble is that the caller knows things he should not be able to know.
Nora and Daniel are clearing out their late mother's house. Nora stayed and cared for her. Daniel flew in with a folder and a plan to sell. One of them knows something the other does not.
Maya is working in the coffee shop she has always gone to on Tuesdays. Tom, her ex, walks past her table and pretends it is a surprise. He is getting married in May. Neither of them says the thing they came to say.
Nora has run her family's restaurant alone since her father's stroke. Tonight she calls her brother and sister in after closing with a folder on the table. She needs both their signatures and she is not leaving without them.
Defense attorney Margot Vance has one witness left to cross-examine. He is calm, well liked, and swears only two keys to the safe ever existed. Margot has a locksmith's invoice and one afternoon to make it count.
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