A man and a woman-complete strangers by any regular measure yet, inexplicably, not strangers, too-cross paths at an exhibition opening one snowy night in Upstate New York. As if in response to some pre-scripted prompt, they embark on a conversation that will alter each of them in ways neither could have anticipated. A night like any other becomes a decade like no other. Criss-crossing between the US and New Zealand, Claire Beynon's For When Words Fail Us is a spellbinding story of devotion, art and betrayal.