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"When I was a child, my mother eloped with an Englishman, which was known to everyone in the town. In fact, the man was German. But in the Indian towns of that era, almost all white-skinned foreigners were considered British." When she was young, Gayatri followed her father by boat to Bali, Indonesia, and met the poet Rabindranath Tagore and the German artist Walter Spies, who had been living in Bali for many years. This journey was engraved in her life for a long time. After her father's death, like every traditional Indian woman, Gayatri was arranged to get married by her family, until one day Spies reappeared in the town. The abandoned child became an eccentric horticulturist, immersed in the memory and waiting for his mother all his life, and devoted himself to silent plants. The secret he wants to know is hidden in a package of old letters traveling between India and Bali.