The Marriage Pact

Valerie, criminal barrister, wakes up before turning 37, realising she has missed out on her personal life after giving it up to the bar.

She tried to go on dates, much to her no avail. Men in their 40s and 50s with baggage: placeholder gals in search for high value women. 50 year olds baby daddies after a drunken paid sex in south east asia. Short fat ugly directors.

Charles, corporate barrister 39, returns to the UK after a decade in Chicago, practicing in Latham and Watkins LLP.

A voluntary celibate after giving up on women, thus no longer seeking short term pleasures from golddiggers and social climbers just to pass the time.

Valerie and Charles are childhood friends and entered a marriage pact after university that they'd consider marrying each other if they're both single after 35. Especially being exposed to divorce cases at eighteen to twenty one, witnessing their non-lawyer friends get married and divorcing that they considered : marry the best friend you would love. Not the one you love who'd fuck you over.

(Photo cover is courtesy of: Andres Molina)