This collection of short stories examines the searing pain of lost love, the precious delight of new love, the fierce ambitions of youth, and the delicious absurdity of dreams. All of the stories are seasoned with a pinch or two of satire and laced with skepticism. The narratives take us on a geographical journey from the playing fields of semi-rural eastern Australia to the majestic mountains of northern Iran. We also travel across time - embarking from a quietly content Australia in the 1960s, visiting a politically fragile Iran in the 1970s, and finally arriving at an eerily plausible Sydney in 2052.