Rosa knows: Some truths are more dangerous than any lie. That's why there are things from her past that she only entrusts to the plants in her garden on the Amalfi Coast. The oleanders know their fears, the cypresses share their guilt - they are all accomplices in their dark secret from the Italian resistance of 1943. At the time, she was working as a kitchen assistant in a villa and had to make a life-changing decision. When her daughter finds a yellowed photo, Rosa has to speak. What is then revealed shakes the foundation of the whole family ...