The events narrated in these stories are not tragic or even especially serious. Instead they are a succession of mundane locations - a plane, a hospital waiting room, an office, a supermarket - where ordinary women and men in their forties share a tendency to over-dramatise, that is, to complicate their lives more than necessary. These characters' stories flow together and intertwine to reveal the great misunderstanding they endure.  And that is that it is these instances of over-dramatising, and not the real dramas in their lives, that lead these people to make bad decisions. Each person will seek their own path in their own way, but beneath the different characters' varied experiences, there lurks an unspoken fear of becoming insignificant.