Every year my father and I plant a garden and every spring my father tells me about Mr. Bellavista and the summer my father was ten. That was the summer he lost a baseball under a tomato plant in Mr. Bellavista's garden. Someone tossed a tomato back instead of the baseball. A lively battle took place, which was fun at the time, but in the end Mr. Bellavista's garden was destroyed. In a touching story of one boy's efforts to make amends, we see the rebuilding of a garden and the forming of a relationship across generations.