Two women, two countries. Serendipity, life, friendship. Diane, a young Australian mother meets Maggie, an older, sophisticated American poet, in a chance encounter. Everything - age, class and even nationality - separates them. Unknown to Diane, Maggie is grieving for her eldest daughter and trapped in a marriage involving infidelity and rape. Diane yearns for the same life altering opportunities given to her brother. This is a story of two unfulfilled women finding each other when they needed it most. Their pen-friendship will change them forever.