Friday, May twenty-second, 2032. The day after his ninety-fourth birthday, the old man sits in a lushly blooming garden - this is the Garden of Eden of his childhood. Next to him is a voice recorder; he is dictating a story about Mr. Adamson onto the tape. He tells it to us, but first of all to his granddaughter Annie. And the old man is also waiting for Mr. Adamson, whom he has not seen since he was eight years old. It was a strange meeting. She allowed the boy to look into places where the living were usually not allowed to look.