Two young expat couples struggle with lives that haven't gone according to plan. Sarah and her husband Andrew long for children, but hide their infertility concerns. Jack and his wife Jenny, a stay-at-home mum, are parenting two small children whose arrival forced a marriage. Frustrated by the cards she's been dealt, and plagued by a sense of yearning, Sarah immerses herself in her job, working as an economist for Jack in a spectacular country offering the adventure of a lifetime. She gradually blossoms as a woman in the professional workforce BUT-she falls in love with Jack. Whose happiness will she protect? Will she? - can she? - give up the man she loves.