Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "Dead Letter Office" stamped on the front. As an adult, she becomes consumed with a desire to find him and takes a job with the Dead Letter Office, convinced that she can use them to fulfill her romantic notions of a reunion with her father. What awaits her at the DLO is far more than that ...—Peter Webb <[email protected]>

A lonely woman who is searching for her father decides to apply for a job at the dead letters office where her letters to her father keep ending up. There she meets a political refugee from Chile with whom she identifies a kinship and initiates a romance.—John Sacksteder <[email protected]>