The Last Time They Met focuses on the relationship between childhood sweethearts Linda Fallon and poet Thomas Janes. We begin in the year 2000 at a writers' festival in Toronto, and are propelled backwards in time, via the politically repressive Naiobi, to the small town in Massachusetts for their school days in the 1960's. Along the way the novel delves deeply into the destructive nature of life and the need for forgiveness.