This is a story that tells you the true love wins out in the end, despite all the odds against it. A summer fling appears to not go anywhere, but both partners, Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel McAdams) profess their love. Noah confesses his dream of restoring an old house, and living with Allie in the house. It is Allie's mother (Joan Allen) that gets in the way. The family ends their vacation early, and Allie is prohibited from seeing Noah. Allie tells a friend to confess her love to Noah. But when Noah writes every day for a year, the mother takes the letters and does not deliver them to Allie. He joins the military for WWII, and she goes to college.
Seven years later Allie is engaged, but comes upon a news story about Noah and the house he has restored. She has to see, and thus rekindles the flame, even though they have not seen each other for seven years. Allie's mother brings her the letters she kept from her, and indicates she had to make the same decision at one point, and went with the man who could provide best rather than the man she loved and wonders if her decision was best. Allie now has a similar choice.
This story is overlaid by a an readinga notebook to his partner ho has deentia. She does not remember things but likes the story. By the end of the movie we realize that this is Noah (James Garner) and Allie (Gena Rowlands) reading Allie's journal about their love story. When they come to the end Allie finds her memories for a time, but then becomes confused again. After having a heart attack, Noah survives, to sneak into bed with his wife where they die together.
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