A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a
lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max,
a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.In the
mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out
of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate
bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic ...
