At 52, Wilson, butterfly hunter, is feeling thethe weight of a past rich in errors and false starts.At the same time, he is obsessed with Gloria,a Chinese girl with a patch on one eye, he metin Hong Kong five years earlier. Gloria had ledhim into a "garden"--if that's really happened.It's from this "garden" that Wilson feels he mustnow escape. He returns to Hong Kong in the summerof 2000, to collect butterflies and help fight a plan toturn Hong Kong's Centipede Island into a landfill.But Wilson can only think of Gloria. With the summercoming to an end, he knows he must confront his obsessionand maybe save his own life....
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