Through Madsen's eyes an adventure unfolds which is almost like slowly watching a lotus blossom bloom into a full and balanced, existence.
And the lotus blooms in the greenhouse pond.
In the summer, water lotus blooms here, but after last week's storm, it's under two feet of snow.
Gunplay is intercut with closeups of bangled feet and floating lotus blooms, subtly indicating that it takes all sorts.
The smell is ambient, the whiff of real lotus blooms stirred by her slow but purposeful strides.
With its reflected bridges, weeping willows, lotus blooms and pagodas, Hangzhou's Unesco-listed West Lake could have come straight off a willow-pattern plate.
FLOAT YOUR BOAT When you step out of the Prague Cafe, turn to the left and you'll find a stall selling candle boats made from Styrofoam egg cartons to look like lotus blooms (10 renminbi).
The lake, which lies to the east and north of Srinagar city covers an area of, although including the floating gardens of lotus blooms, it is (an estimated figure of 22 24 km2 is also mentioned).
Sip wine or beer beside a pond straight out of a French painting, with lotus blooms the size of dinner plates, wander through tree-lined "allees," touch most (but not all) of the magnificent art work, and duck into galleries the size of airplane hangers.
"The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud," says a Buddhist proverb, just in case you thought all crap was bad.
