Adele Ambar has always wanted to be a famous actress. Young, beautiful and ambitious, she is determined to live her dream. Jack Shakespeare is a television reporter, a man with an eye for the good things in life and a self-confessed romantic `on a day-to-day basis'. When they meet it is obvious what is going to happen - but the obvious isn't always easy... From the farmlands of New South Wales, via New York to cosmopolitan London their love story unfolds, but Jack learns that loving Miss Ambar and keeping her are two very different things...