The outer worldof banter and irony, a healing or at least comforting force, gradually vanishes, as does Midge, their embodiment, leaving us with increasingly lonely images and sounds.
"Wild Medicine" (it has a jawbreaker of a subtitie: "Healing Plants Around the World Featuring the Italian Renaissance Garden") traces the history of plants as palliatives and prescriptions while making abundantly clear that their use for what ails you is hardly a thing of the past.