The Gatherer is set in the imaginary world of a little girl, A bubble of her own, she inhabits a cardboard forest teaming with forest children. The Gatherer roams through the forest and sees it begin to transform - the apples are rotting, the forest children are turning into TV couch potatoes. He comes to the girl and tells her it’s time to leave this fantasy, allowing her only the a wooden flute to take back into the outside world.