Mel is a forty-year-old mum of two living in an apartment block in Sydney juggling a busy job and her post-marriage malaise. When a young couple moves in upstairs Mel in her rather fraught state begins to see many parallels between them and an affair from Mel's own past. When one day the young woman from upstairs goes missing Mel is forced to confront the darker side of what really happened with the man she loved twenty years before. With a deft but light touch Holly Wainwright explores the serious and timely issue of control and coercion within relationships how heady passion can quickly turn into emotional abuse and how hard it can be for women to recognise the line that separates the two.