A tale of friendship between two unlikely pencil pals: also a lonely, Mary, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a older obese man living in big apple. A homely, in the mid-1970's, friend-less Australian girl of 8 picks a name and writes . She includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, along with chocolate. Thus begins a correspondence. Can the two ever meet face to face?