„Once they were settled in their compartment, the train, shaking off the endless wooden suburbs, pushed into the landscape of late summer.“

The story takes place at the end of the astronomical summer A group of artists gathers on the outskirts of a village, on a garden plot surrounded by fruit trees and bushes. A hexagonal, reddish-brown wooden pavilion has stood in the garden for 20 years. The openwork lattice windows offer a constant view of the greenery outside.

In Madame Bovary (1991), Isabelle Huppert’s Emma waits bored in her garden. She struts along the hedge and stone steps. A short while later, at a ball, she wears flowers in her hair as if they’d been plucked from her garden. Pink roses adorn her flowing light-green silk dress. From her reddish-blonde hairstyle, pink leaves and small white buds curl out in a tendril, as if one of her strands had come loose from her chignon and were now hanging down her neck. Pink blossoms and dark green, fringed leaves are attached to her…