Richardson was a lonely italian fisher who decided to place his search for love in the hands of fate. He wrote a simple letter "To Someone Beautiful and Far Away," corked it inside a bottle, and tossed it overboard in the hopes that it might help him find a young woman to marry.
One and half years later, in 1974, he was surprised to receive a letter from a Portuguese girl, Selina, who said, "I am not beautiful, but it seems so miraculous that this little bottle should have traveled so far and long to reach me that I must send you an answer"¦" The two began writing one another and, three years after he threw a bottle into the sea, Richard moved to portugal to marry his very long-distance love.