After watching her parents separate, Emma has grown cynical about romance and love. But she is forced to reconsider her hard heartedness when she starts receiving letters from someone who claims to be the love of her life in the future. Naturally skeptical, she becomes convinced that this is for real when the letter writer starts describing personal secrets she has never (yet) shared with anyone else. Now convinced, she begins to look for clues of the writer's identity comparing things he's let slip with things she learns about her friends. Each new lead makes her question her decisions, wondering if this person or that person is the future letter writer and love of her life, and questioning every choice she makes. In the end, she realizes that regardless of who this person is, she does indeed believe in love after all.
A sweet concept that serves as a launching point for Emma's development of faith and personal confidence. With the exception of the premise, we are on familiar and satisfying territory as Emma's hard heart melts and she realizes that she is not only capable of love but she is eager to have that happy ending her pen pal from the future promises. Along the way, she also develops a more mature understanding of her parents and the decisions that they made. Finally, a little twist at the end provides just the right amount of uncertainty for a satisfying conclusion.
