A wealthy middle-aged businesswoman employs a learning-disabled younger man to tend her garden. As time goes by, both are touched by tragedy - but they find strength and comfort in each other's friendship, which eventually turns into love. Romantic drama, starring Mel Gibson, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison and Peter Gwynne.

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.