He's 17, she's 15. 'Poetry alive' is how he described her to others and read Walt Whitman's poems just for her. But the summer is over. Ellie is forced to come home. He's 31, she's 29. He's gone through the war, she's engaged, but a new meeting changes their lives. He is 80, she is 78. In a facility for the elderly, he reads her the story of their love from an old notebook every day. The story of Noah and Ellie is incredibly transformed into something else, bigger. It is a story about a great feeling that will stay with you forever."