The Gardener movie is a modern-day allegory; an extended metaphor carried throughout the length of the story; the universal story of one’s journey toward one’s self. Sabena Weathers, head of a family cosmetics empire, is fighting to keep her company free from a hostile takeover by its European counterpart. Since the untimely deaths of her husband and father several years earlier, Sabena’s goal has been to keep their legacy, her heritage, alive at any cost; even the cost of her own life. Sabena’s transformation begins when she makes the conscious choice to move to a remote mountaintop garden cottage. Here she meets Walter, a seemingly simple gardener who takes her on a powerful journey of self-discovery, healing and ultimately back to her true self. It all begins in the garden; magically, metaphorically and serendipitously.
“The Idea for The Gardener sprang from the knowing that we all have our own higher power, our own gentle small voice guiding us. It is when we listen, when we act, when we share this power, this voice, that we know we are forever transformed and can never return to the old self; the dilapidated cottage that sits down from the main house of our higher self. Light touches us in the darkest of dark moments and persists when we can’t; a tiny match lit in an immense darkened room leading us along the path; the path we choose... And these are the choices we are defined by in life.” - DDAY
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