The play 'A scent of flowers' by James Saunders compares events of life and death. The heroine, Zoe, incarnates the feeling of the necessity of being alive and the spectator watches all her life and the reality of her death through an unlucky love story. The incomprehensible, the alienation, the cruelty and the great moments of her life coexist with the tenderness, love, sorrow and insignificant details of our daily life.