Nell has published her first book and it has become a success. When it comes out that she based her story on a small town that a fellow student told her about, her publisher immediately arranges a book signing in the small town's bookstore. However, it turns out that it is now owned by said fellow student, Emmett, and Nell and Emmett had something going when Emmett suddenly left her a number of years ago…
The film holds up, even if it's a bit unbelievable that they haven't had any contact in all these years.