Mick Tate, a wealthy fifty-year-old businessman sits in a café in Paris waiting for her, the woman that transformed his whole life in a matter of a few months.

He waits in hope; the meeting was after all, arranged more than a decade before. Will she even remember?

While he waits, he remembers how in one weekend he had fallen completely in love with her, and she with him. And at a breathless pace she had, transformed his life, and the lives of his entire family. The story of their unusual romance, takes them from England to South Africa, Uganda, Bosnia and eventually to France.

It is a story of not just a budding relationship, but also that of the hectic journey of a young girl into adulthood and the impact she has on a previously dysfunctional family. The story of their socially unacceptable relationship is at times hilariously funny. But the question remains – will she turn up?