Emma Lowell has devoted her entire life to work: she restores abandoned gardens. When she is presented with a unique opportunity to restore the garden at the famous Highbury House estate, the girl happily gets down to business. The old garden, designed in 1907 by Vincente Smith, hides the secrets of the house and the people who lived here. Stories that remain forever in the memory of the estate. Years and centuries are intricately intertwined here, from the beginning of the twentieth century, when Vincent found employment as a garden designer for industrialists and bankers, to the war years. Secrets kept for decades are ready to be revealed to anyone who will look and listen carefully.