Plot Summary:As a young girl, Alice dreams of travelling to faraway places and finding a home by the sea. \"There is a third thing you must do,\" says her grandfather. \"You must do something to make the world more beautiful.\" It is Alice's search to do this third and most difficult thing of all that leads her to discover the answer in a handful of seeds.
Miss Rumphius is based on a children’s fiction book by Barbara Cooney, published in 1982. The book follows the life story of Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful, and who found it in planting lupins in the wild.