Olivia Maartens is young, successful, in love and on a book tour in New York City. Right after winning a major award from GLAAD, she gets a call that shatters her world. She quickly descends into a familiar darkness twelve and a half thousand kilometres away from her daughter and sister. Her saviour comes in the unexpected form of Rowan Livingstone, international music and acting sensation, and well-known Casanova. Olivia’s heinous past makes her reluctant to open herself up to anyone new, especially someone with Rowan’s reputation. Regardless, Rowan is quickly enamoured by Olivia and wants nothing more than to help her through a difficult time. As she slowly starts cracking the brick walls around Olivia’s heart, her production company takes a tentative first flight. The only downside is that her investors want to adapt Olivia’s memoir – a harrowing childhood account of her mother’s murder and father’s sexual abuse – as the inaugural movie.

Olivia and Rowan attempt to navigate the difficulties of a long distance relationship. Olivia has to worry about her ex potentially threatening what she's built with Rowan and the small emotional progress she made in New York. Rowan is so busy with her new movie that she barely has time to focus on Olivia and Lea. She battles her desire to jump on a plane to South Africa but knows that she can't. With a relationship so young, can they truly endure the ten-thousand-mile distance?