In 1975, a meteor shower brings hundreds of invasive alien plant species to Earth, who quickly take hold of local ecosystems. A scientist grows up and grows old amid the fallout.

On her missions to Mars, a microbiology botanist attempts to introduce natural life to the planet. However, it is not nature, but love, that begins to take root.

In a distant America, suffering from the effects of climate change, a Black researcher searches for a way to stop a deadly fungus from destroying one of the last farmlands owned by a Black farmer before her White partner can sell it all away.

When a woman meets a strange seed salesman one day, she endeavors to create a magnificent—and unexpectedly magical—herb garden.

Two female biologists spend a few months in a hotel in the Northeastern United States to research shore life, and whereas one pursues romance with men, the other feels spurned by unrequited love.

An immigrant woman reflects on her courtship with her husband. She thinks of how she beguiled her husband with stories about her grandfather's friendship with scientist Gregor Mendel, and how they remind her of untold stories about her sexual assault.

An academic prides herself in her powers of observation, but finds herself unable to change the fate of those suffering around her—whether it be a microscopic rotifer in biology lab, a long-dead boy whose letters she reads from the 1800s, or her twenty-one-year old cousin.