The reclusive writer Henry returns from his travels and finds a pile of letters on his doorstep. Without a salutation or signature, the poems written on used train tickets remind him of his current literary impotence. Henry opens envelope after envelope and reads, reading between the lines, gradually allowing the foreign words to touch his soul. After a while, his imagination awakens, and he may even start writing again himself. But who are these mysterious letters from?

Little Meda spends her last summer days with her parents on a half-decayed farm. Among the overgrown flowerbeds she seeks shelter from the approaching storm, but also from the feeling that she is nowhere near home. As the parents find no words with each other and the big storm inevitably approaches, Meda escapes into the arms of the garden one last time. But some scarecrows are impossible to hide from.