Fresh Water for Flowers

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne, France. Her life revolves around the cemetery, where she shares coffee, laughter, companionship, and occasional tears with mourners and colleagues, living to the rhythm of their funny and moving confidences. Her routine is disrupted by the arrival of Julien Sole, the local police chief, who has come to scatter his recently deceased mother's ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable request is intertwined with Violette's own difficult and complicated past and secret grief. The story is an intimately told tale about a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, despite all her losses and sorrow.

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