Lu Chen's world stopped on that rainy night seven years ago.
After a helpless rescue, he took off his white coat and became the most indifferent property manager in the office building.
A black-and-white office, a life accurate to the minute, and a rejection of all deep connections - he lived like an isolated island until the fiddleleaf fig died in the corridor he was responsible for.
The day Xiang Qing moved into the building, she brought a whole palette of vitality with her.
She is a picture book author and horticultural therapist who believes that "there are cracks in everything, and that's where the light gets in."
She understood the tree's cry for help, and also understood the deeper desolation in the eyes of the man under the tree.
"Because this tree, and you, both seem to need a rain." She answered his question, and then stubbornly used plants, colors and unexpected warmth to penetrate into the world he guarded little by little.
Starting with a pot of mint, a pruning, and a community workshop,
From saving a tree to accidentally saving a person,
Lu Chen discovered that the past that he thought he would never be able to face,
The gap is being pried open slowly but surely by the power of another life.
Purpose: Healing is not about erasing scars, but about growing new tissue next to the scars.