Fresh Water For Flowers

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues-three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette`s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit his mother`s ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother`s story of clandestine love breaks through Violette`s carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely determination to find out who is responsible. The funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary. A delightful, atmospheric, absorbing tale.