Through the Lychgate

Two girls dreading the start of the new school year: two years earlier, one had boasted to her friends that shed had an a air with a teacher, who had subsequently left. Now, to the girls dismay, he is unexpectedly returning. Another girl, by the sea, in her room or garden at home, struggling with an impossible love that captivated her during her participation in the schools A Midsummer Nights Dream. A man labouring tirelessly to transform a huge, sloping field above a lychgate into a paradise garden. A woman sitting in her sons garden, contemplating the sun sinking into the Southern Ocean. What connects these random moments in disparate lives into a poignant, coherent whole?