Amanda Seyfried

Having lost his wife in a car accident that left him with brain damage and subsequent mental problems, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist struggles to keep custody of his young daughter, who many years later faces emotional problems of her own.

While John, a young soldier, is home on a temporary leave, he meets and falls in love with Savannah, a college girl on her spring break. Savannah promises to write to John when he is sent overseas. Over the next seven years, the couple continues to be separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. Though they meet only sporadically, they continue to stay in touch through love letters that eventually bring fateful consequences.