Sam who hasn't seen her father since childhood when he divorced her mother re-marries and moves with his new bride to Australia but becomes widowed for the second time. It is on a request by his second wife to find his daughter and to put things right between them and so he invites his daughter over to see him but his lavish lifestyle fuels many questions of which Sam needs answers to. On the plain over unknown to her is his step-son, is he also an orphan of fate like herself? They soon become acquainted when he occupies the seat next to hers for the rest of the flight.