In the 1970s, an 8-year-old Australian girl, Mary, befriends Max, an overweight man with Asperger's, through a pen pal exchange that spans 20 years, despite their vastly different lives and struggles.

Mary and Max
An unlikely bond develops between a young girl from Melbourne's suburbs and a middle-aged man in New York, transcending their significant age and life stage differences through a heartfelt exchange of letters.