A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her âdark-eyed sailorâ to return from war, bearing the other half of their token, a gimmel ring. Three veterans pass on the road as she waits, and she asks them: âWhen you were fighting in distant lands, did you think of the home you left?â In reply the veterans relate their recollections. The garden images in the accompanying film represent âhomeâ, but also stand for a more general possibility of redemption, of the potential of the past to return at any time, disguised and changed, to renew the present: âEach moment of time is a garden gate,â the song goes, âThrough it my love may walk.â
