Photo: Robert Fraisse In a nursing home, a man (James Garner) reads a love story written in his old notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands). It is the story of Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams), two young teenagers from North Carolina who, despite living in two very different social environments, fell deeply in love and spent an unforgettable summer together, before being separated, first by their parents, and later by the war.