When Danny Deck gets a call from the daughter he has never seen, the lines open up into the real world.
Insulated behind the fax and the business diary, Danny is in retreat from love and pain and the whole damn thing, preferring teh answerphone to people. But gutsy and life-enhancing T.R. inserts herself into his life and brings her baggage with her : children, lovers, camp followers - and her demand to love and be loved.