Nicholas secretly helps Jose in the garden, and his health improves. This does not please the prim American, who tries to shield his son from contact with the servants. Little Nicholas, who lacks companionship, is drawn to the friendly gardener. Father and son settle in an old villa with a garden, for the care of which they hire a young Catalan man, Jose. Brand, the American Consul, arrives with his nine-year-old son, Nicholas, at his duty station in the small town of San Jorge on the Spanish coast. Nikolai’s father, the American Consul in Spain, was adamantly against his son’s friendship with the servant and did everything he could to separate the buddies. The story of the touching friendship between the boy Nicholas and the Catalan gardener Jose, which ended tragically.
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