I Draw Roses: a Fable. An artist sits in his London studio, drawing roses. Unbeknown to each other, six women from all over the world have each commissioned him to draw a rose for a friend in crisis: Betsy, from the American heartlands, who's about to lose her farm; Lola, an Argentinian in self-imposed romantic exile in Spain; Amala, a beautiful Indian bank executive whose emotional bankruptcy has taken her to the brink of despair; Gisella, a young Italian housewife, who prefers her daydreams to returning to the job which she dreads; Miriam, a widow in South Africa, whose inability to stand...