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In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. 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All he has in life is a half hectare of Pinot Noir, a guest cottage where his days are numbered, a special needs cat named Max, and a winemaker partner pressing him for a more committed relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese modest assets are balanced by the impending publication of Miles's new novel, \u003cem\u003eA Year of Pure Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e. His fledgling publicist has arranged for a book tour that will take Miles along the east coast of New Zealand, from Oamaru to Auckland, to a series of increasingly interesting Kiwi book clubs. In a six-ton camper van! 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It's now a few years later and Miles is a successful author with a blockbuster movie adaptation under his belt, but he's still searching for something, and depression has him, once again, in its taloned grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he is offered a chance to travel to the country of Chile and visit their wine regions for a magazine assignment, Miles-his world turned upside down by bad financial investments and even worse luck with relationships-happily agrees. 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