Annette is a mature woman with a wide circle of good friends and an interesting and stimulating job teaching biology at the local college. But something is wrong. She gradually realises that since the departure of her husband-to-be some years previously, she had unconsciously avoided any kind of closeness that might lead to deepening intimacy. Becoming determined to help herself, she creates an imaginary lover to whom she writes with complete freedom and increasing confidence. Through the course of this "correspondence" she reassesses her intimate life of the past, and she moves into a new spontaneity and lightness as her writing begins to reveal more of her true nature. She finds herself responding to the warm friendship of a colleague, a widower...