Climbing a Ladder Backwards

Rose Murdock,single,straight and on the brink of bitter and twisted,lists malingering as her favourite pastime and has filed her love life under missing in action - presumed dead.
Dumped by her boyfriend,Gary,in a place she doesn't want to be,in a job she hates,with a boss she plans to murder and drowning in a sea of meaningless office politics,Rose is about to be thrown two lifelines.The only problem is - has she staggered too far down the path of complacency and lethargy to grab the right one?
Alex Steiner,single,gay and best friend to Rose,holds a deck of life-cards all firmly stacked in his favour.The only cloud on his golden horizon is his inability to confess his real sexual preferences to his parents and put a stop to their determined quest to find him a bride.
But a key to a dilapidated house in Tuscany,flowers from an unknown admirer and a mysterious man from Hong Kong are about to change everything.