This movie starts off with a older gentle man who lives in a nursing home reading a story to a older lady about 2 young loves named Noah and Allie. The story takes place in Seabrook, South Carolina in the 1940's. Noah and Allie meet at the local carnival and Noah immeditley takes a liking to Allie. However Allie rejects his advances. But after being set up on a double date by their best friends who are dating Allie begins to recipcate Noah's feelings. They are eventually inseperable and spend every waking moment together.
Allie's parents are very wealthy and Noah is lucky to make .10 an hour, and Allie's parents do not approve of their relationship, and after a fight with her parents in which Noah overhears Allie's mom calling him Trash and that he is not good enough for her he decides to make a rash decision and break up with her, which he immeditley regrets. But before they get a chance to make up Allie's parents decide to move back home to keep them apart. (They were only in Seabrook for the Summer). Noah writes Allie a letter everyday for year in which he apologizes to Allie for breaking up with her, but they all go unresponded but we learn that it was due to her mother hiding her letters from her. In his last leter he decides to bid her farewell and move on with his life and he and his best friend decide to move to Alanta.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor Noah and Finn (his best friend) enlist in the army and fight in World War II where eventually Finn is killed. Meanwhile Allie enrolls in collge and volunteers as a nurses aid where she helps men who are revovering from the war. There she meets the Lon Hammond who is handsome, charming, and comes from a wealthy family and begin dating and eventually engaged much to her family joy.
Noah returns to Seabrook after the war where he learns that his father sold his house so Noah could purchase the Windsor Plantation (an old abandonded house that Noah dreamed of restoring and living in with Allie).
While in town to present his restoration plans for the house he spots Allie among the crowd but looses her in the crowd. He spots her through a resturant window where he sees her kissing Lon and is heartbroken again. But he feels that somehow if he restores the house Allie will come back to him. After he finishes the house the newpaper interviews him and puts his picture in the paper, and he decides to put it up for sale. However when it came down to it he can't find it in his heart to part with it.
While trying on her wedding dress for family she comes across Noah's picture in the paper and decides to visit him. Upon returning to the plantation she is nervous and drives into Noah fence and he invites her in where they have dinner and talk and she makes it known that she is engaged. He invites her back tomorrow morning for a surprise. He takes her for a boat ride on the lake.
It then proceeds to rain where she says that it wasn't over for her and that waited for him and that now it is too late. Noah tells her that he wrote her everyday for year and that it still isn't over. He pulls her into a kiss and they go back to the house where they end up making love.
After a few days of passion Allie'r mother shows up at the plantation where she see's Allie pretty much naked and tells her that Lon is in town. She tells her to get dressed because she wants to show her something. Her and Allie drive to a lumberyard where he mother tells her that she also had a summer romance and that she still watches her ex-lover somtimes. They drive back to Noah's house, and he is sitting on the porch, Allie's mom hands her the letters that Noah had written, saying that she hopes Allie makes the right choice. She drives away and Allie goes to sit on the porch with Noah. She explains how Lon is in town and how the past few days had been wonderful, but very irresponsible. Noah is furious, accusing her of only loving Lon for his money, and says that if she leaves, he will hate her forever. She storms toward her car, and Noah yells after her that she's bored with her life, and if she wasn't she wouldn't have come. She turns around and yells back that they wouldn't last because it had only been 3 days and they were already arguing. He begs her to stay with him, saying that he knows they fight and is willing to work it out every day if that's what it takes. He says that he's not afraid to hurt her feelings because that's what they do; they fight and make up. He tells her that if she really wants to be with Lon, then she should go, because he lost her once and could do it again. Confused, Allie drives off.
Crying and distraught Allie pulls over and reads one of the letters...which is his goodbye letter. Back at the hotel where Lon is staying she comes clean as too what happened. He is angry but says that he can either kill Noah, beat him up, or leave her, but says that neither of those are good because neither of them give her her and that inspite of this he still loves her and wants to work it out. But he doesn't want to have to convince her that he is the one she should be with. She says that he knows who she should be with.
Then it switches over to Noah waking up to a car approaching and he hears a car door shut...He goes out to his front porch where he sees Allie with her luggage, she drops them a runs into his arms.
It then switches back to the elderly man and woman, and the woman realizes that she is Allie and that the man is Noah. She asks how long she has until she looses her memory again. They dance and while dancing she relapes and she starts freaking out as she believes the man is an intruder and the older Allie has to recieve a shot to calm her down. Noah is distraught and cries.
Back in his room he is looking through the book he was reading to Allie where it says
"Read this to me and I will come back to you everytime"
The next morning Noah is rushed to emergency when a nurse finds him in critical condition, but survives. He sneaks into Allie's room where she asks himif their love is stong enough to take them both away together. Noah says that their love is stong enough to do anything.
The next morning a nurse comes into check on Allie and finds both Allie and Noah holding hands having peacefully died in their sleep.
This movie is so sweet!! I loved it Ryan Gossling, and Rachel McAdams who played Noah and Allie had such great chemistry together.
Rated PG-13
