The novel tells the story of a Chinese woman living in Melbourne. Being far from her homeland, Amanda is mentally scarred, but Western counseling fails to address the trauma of an Eastern woman. Works as a journalist, she keeps encountering various people from Melbourne's diverse society. It is a romance novel about cross-cultural love, where she finds self-redemption through love and self-realization. "My emotions, my experiences in a foreign country, all the tears and laughter, all the sorrow and pain, will they ultimately illuminate me or destroy me? "