None of them ever thought it would come to this. That they would pay money to go to a dinner solely for the chance to meet someone. They've all brought with them the baggage of failure, pain, hurt, rejection. Tonight, in their eyes, humiliation.

Why are they here? What brought them to resort to this, perfectly practical arrangement though it is, to this way of meeting strangers? Believe me, before tonight, they've all tried lots of other ways of meeting someone else...