Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things...

　　剧中讲了几个家庭的情感故事，居然每个家庭都在闹离婚（或者是同居的闹分手），这不由得不令人生疑：现实生活中的家庭婚姻关系已经脆弱到这种程度了吗？离婚率高到这种程度了吗？一位忠实追看了好几集的朋友前几天愤然告诉我，本来是挺想看看言情剧的，但现在她实在追不下去了。“剧情太脱离生活了！哪有那样的女儿，居然拚命去拆散自己的家庭，愣要把父母各自婚前的情人找来，让大家统统离婚，折腾来折腾去，再凑成两个家庭！”这个女儿确实很新潮，就是不能让人接受。而父母竟然让这个小女儿玩得团团转，果然是离的离结的结，简直就像是小孩儿在过家家。主人公谢晓华跟吴巧云更是一对活宝，两人离婚后分别再婚竟然又分别想离婚而后再复婚，让人不明所以（民政部门得增加多少工作量啊！）。剧情脱离生活，再怎么样都难以煽情，剧中人忙着他们的离婚和结婚，而我们在一旁哂笑。