Spanning 20 years and two continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely eight-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz, a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Aspergers Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. As Mary and Max chronicles Marys trip from adolescence to adulthood, and Maxs passage from middle to old age, it explores a bond that survives much more than the average friendships ups-and-downs. Like Elliot and CoombsOscar(R) winning animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Maxis both hilarious and poignant as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many more of lifes surprises.