Gillian, a young English designer, has been hired to refurbish an ancient park in southern France, but she is struggling with a team of elderly, conservative, and hostile gardeners.
For Gillian, with her nervous personality, attack seems the best defence, but unfortunately for her, her haughty attitude is scaring off Marcel, a young jobbing gardener whose rugged good looks have captured Gillian's imagination.
But then one intolerably hot summer afternoon, a near-sunstroke and an unplanned dip in the garden's pond reveal a completely new Gillian.