Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams star in this romantic drama adapted from Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel. The central story is set in the 1940s and is about two young people (Gosling and McAdams) who have a passionate romance, but are forced apart at the insistence of family. After 7 years without any contact, the two are reunited in their hometown, and their passionate love affair is reignited. The film is shown through a series of flashbacks as they're read from a notebook decades later by an old man (James Garner) to an old woman (Gena Rowlands) suffering from Alzheimer's.