The Bridges of Madison County meets Sleepless in Seattle. A lonely British woman's letter to a successful American author sparks a relationship that changes both their lives.

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful but ultimately unsatisfying love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter. As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris-a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.