Owen is different, and trying hard not to be. If it hadn’t been for Natalie Field, Owen would probably just have gone on pretending to conform.
The toothpaste ads scream sex. The cigarette ads, the art movies and the pop songs all say that there is just one important thing in life. Man plus Woman equals Sex. So Owen Griffiths decides that he is in love with Natalie Field. But the bitterness and loss that follow only prove to him that the ads and the rest are just part of a never-never land. Instead, Owen has to come to terms with the compromises and complications that mark out the real relationships between men and women.