A story of friendship between two pen pals: also a lonely, Mary, eight-year-old girl living in Melbourne's suburbs, and Max, a forty-four-year oldobese man living in ny. A homely, At the mid-1970's, friendless girl writes to him and of 8 picks a name. She's a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet with face to face?