I Draw Roses: a Fable. An artist sits in his London studio, drawing roses. Unbeknown to each other, six women from all over the world have each commissioned him to draw a rose for a friend in crisis: Betsy, from the American heartlands, who's about to lose her farm; Lola, an Argentinian in self-imposed romantic exile in Spain; Amala, a beautiful Indian bank executive whose emotional bankruptcy has taken her to the brink of despair; Gisella, a young Italian housewife, who prefers her daydreams to returning to the job which she dreads; Miriam, a widow in South Africa, whose inability to stand up for herself means that she's oblivious to her own desires, and Kate, on the verge of marrying the wrong man, returning to Australia after a love affair in England went sour. As the drawing of her rose evolves, however, each woman's life begins, slowly and mysteriously, to be transformed ...