In a distant future civilization, Athena, a disgraced academic, discovers a series of recordings from a past civilization that believes the only way to make plants grow is to tell them stories. A group of Botanists, carefully trained from childhood in the art of storytelling, discover they are forgetting the stories that are keeping them and their world alive. As Athena listens to their stories, she starts to feel a bond with them, especially with one botanist in particular, Teller Ren. Could Ren's downfall become Athena's salvation?