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Learn more- In a dystopian future on Earth all plant life has been wiped out. A giant corporation called "The Company" enslaves those who do have jobs as zombie-like factory workers. A revolutionary group whose graffiti symbol is flowers finds evidence of the previous existence and beauty of vegetation, symbolised by a rose in a glass cylinder. This is amongst the effects of the deceased mother of one of the group, illegally searched out in "cryogen capsule stores" where the state keeps them after death. The group then seeks to repair the planet using seeds obtained from a man called "The Keeper" who holds the only remaining collection they know of. Having met him and overcome his pessimistic denial of hope they obtain a tray of viable seeds he has in his museum and, ambushed by the oppressive police, run to the building roof for the denouement. Here the rose is crushed underfoot by the pursuing police, but in the melee some of the seeds from the just-obtained tray fall from the rooftop fight onto the pavement far below, where they fall into cracks between paving slabs and vanish into the earth...
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