Isle of Flowers
Sep 06, 1989 | IMDB 8.1
13 min Watch NowDocumentary
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
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