“Washingtonia starts when the giraffe’s heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry, and no one likes small and dry hearts.” The film is just as poetic as this synopsis: beauty, sorrow, nostalgia, the desire for love, and a vague feeling of pain. In the rhythm of a giraffe’s beating heart, the characters’ lives are intertwined with one another and with the suffering of dying palm trees.