Sovichana Vann’s Reviews > The Butterfly Garden > Status Update

The Gardener only ever killed girls for three reasons. First, they were too old. Secondly, due to any health concerns; too sick, too injured or pregnant.Third, if a girl was incapable of settling into the garden. His son, Avery kills them for fun, and sometimes on accident. Whenever that happened, his father would ban him from the garden for a time, but then he'd be back.

Lorraine, obsessed with the Gardener, who once been one of his butterflies when she was younger, now on her forties, serves him and the girls. Sometimes, she visits those dead girls on display, full of envy, wishing him all to herself.

Inara, here she finally tells the two detectives how she came about to ending up in the garden. Where she was waitressing, the Gardener spotted her, admired her beauty and her butterfly tattoo, "Yes, but like all beautiful creatures, very short-lived".

They call him the Gardener, their captive, who collects young girls, "butterflies", and force them to live in a controlled containment, surrounded by a lushes actual garden. Here, we finally finds out what happens to a "butterfly", when they no longer serves their use. She's displayed in clear resin, with her back nearly against the glass, striped of her identity, arranged, displayed and groomed to his satisfaction.