George tillman jr directs this feature adaptation of the 2013 nicholas sparks novel of the same name when elderly widower ira levinson alan alda gets trapped in a snowstorm after crashing his car his brain refuses to let him die replaying thoughts and memories of him and his wife over and over in the same town student sophia britt robertson meets cowboy luke scott eastwood a man like no other she has ever met as the lives of the two couples begin to intertwine sophia struggles with