Amanda Woods is the owner of a prospering advertising firm that creates movie trailers and lives in Southern California. Iris Simpkins writes the popular wedding column for the UK's Daily Telegraph and resides in a charming cottage in the English countryside. Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda realises the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in exactly the same place. When the women stumble across a website specialising in home exchanges they agree to criss cross continents in an attempt to find the remedy to their troubles. Out of their natural habitat it a seems that the best trips are the ones where you leave your baggage behind, as both women find unexpected love on the other side of the world...