They promise to meet up in Kathmandu but she returns to Melbourne, marries a left-wing politician, Jack, and has children.
It was the first of a proposed nine TV movies that were made as a part of a co-production deal between Revcom and ABC.
(The other Australian movies were The Lizard King and Going Price aka A Matter of Convenience.)
[3] In August 1986 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that "the ABC have kept quiet about" the movie, "and understandably so.
The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic said the film had "endless boring flashbacks" and "the inedible print of its writer, Bob Ellis, who has made a career out of sardonically attacking the middle classes, ate into the script to an unimaginative degree."