A ship sets sail, a large steamer. It has gardens on board: allotment gardens, parks, landscape gardens, and deep green forests. And a few passengers: the people who created those oases, or others who enjoy spending time in them. You can see them standing at the railing as the ship departs, living people and those lost, known and imagined. Among them is Teo Wild, an anthropologist. He is in search of the gardens: those of memory, the early ones from childhood, the gardens of love, and the gardens of thought that he enjoys sharing with others. Dieter Bachmann's expansive composition tells the story of various regions, the world of yesterday and today, and at the same time reflects the human condition between Eden and Apocalypse. Between environmental destruction and nature reserves: cheerful, angry, calm, indignant, wise - and always with a touch of Voltairean melancholy. Man in the garden: never is.