One man's epic journey from designing smart bombs for the US Military to planting a winter garden on a Greek Island.
Feeling burned out, fragmented, ineffectual and plagued by guilt and remorse after helping to design guidance systems and smart bombs for the US Military, Doran Seeger decides that a prolonged sabbatical in Europe might somehow offer him renewal.
Wandering from country to country, he encounters new societies and new ideas, falls in and out of love, and tries his hand at more than a few curious professions, yet after ten years abroad he still struggles to appease his conscience.
Living in Prague and working as an underground art dealer, a chance encounter with the sister of his former lover persuades him to return to Greece, where a society that embraces real civility, not to mention a few idiosyncrasies, tenderly draws the habitual itinerant out of reticence and cynicism.
With his longtime Greek friend Modestos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden. As he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.