When Noah gets the message he rushes to Allie's home, only to find the house empty.Noah writes to Allie every day for a year but Anne intercepts the letters and they never reach Allie.

When the two co-stars met in 1990, there was an instant connection.At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient.In 1940, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, Noah Calhoun is smitten with 17 year old heiress Allison "Allie" Hamilton after seeing her at a carnival, and they have a summer love affair.Noah enlists with Fin to fight in World War II, where Fin is killed in battle.Allie volunteers in a hospital for wounded soldiers, where she meets officer Lon Hammond Jr., a young lawyer who comes from old Southern money.