San Diego Asian Film Festival 2008

Mamo Ikeda, an elderly Japanese American gardener, is besieged with weeds. And these are no ordinary weeds-they are the same type that Mamo was accused of inadvertently spreading twenty years earlier. If this isn't bad enough, Mamo also begins to receive a series of strange phone calls from a mysterious woman who seems to know personal things about him. Going from the gardeners' federation office to a retro chop suey house in Little Tokyo to the lawns of Japanese American neighborhoods, Mamo is in search of the truth-only to discover that the weeds are keys to both is past and his future.