Wouldn't you want some attention on your birthday, especially if you were an ocean away from home? Not Zach, apparently.
Zach's closest friends are scrambling to find out which country he's in and what his latest phone number is so they can call and tell him happy birthday. They have eight hours. Their search soon spirals into an emotional cyclone when these globally scattered twenty-somethings are forced into having international phone conversations and confessing the secrets they've been hiding from each other all these years.
A married woman in Los Angeles with a cheating husband finds out the other man she loves is gay. A workaholic architect in Stockholm finally realizes his success will mean nothing if he can't share it with someone he left behind. An advertising consultant in Taipei admits to herself at long last the only reason she suffers abusive relationships is to win the affection of her ex-boyfriend from college.
This is a story about the pull of friendship that gives a group of wanderers one last chance to catch up with life before it leaves them behind. Told in intertwining vignettes through the voices of multiple characters, the story connects past and present and sweeps across seven cosmopolitan cities and five time zones.
Wonderful cover by the legendary Bradley Wind.