Meanwhile, in 2006, Alex has gone to Daley Plaza to look for Kate. Wait two years, she says, and come to the lake house instead. Rushing to the lake house, Kate frantically writes a letter telling Alex she loves him, but begs him not to try to find her if he loves her back. She also learns that Alex was killed in a traffic accident exactly two years ago to the day and realizes why he never showed up for their date – he was the man who died in Daley Plaza. A drawing of the lake house on the conference room wall catches her attention and upon asking, Henry Wyler informs her the artist was his brother, Alex, and Kate realizes that this was the same Alex with whom she had been corresponding. Meanwhile, Kate goes to an architect to review the renovation plans for a house she wants to buy. On Valentine's Day 2006 for Alex, Valentine's Day 2008 for Kate, he returns to the lake house after something about the day triggers a memory. Both Alex and Kate leave the lake house, continuing on with their separate lives. Heartbroken, Kate asks Alex not to write to her again, recounting the accident earlier that day. Kate goes to the restaurant but Alex fails to show. Alex makes a reservation at the Il Mare restaurant – two years into Alex's future, but only a day away for Kate. Alex writes in response that this is their first "fight".Īs Alex and Kate continue to write to each other, they decide to try to meet again.
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When Alex writes to present-time Kate about their encounter, she replies that she remembers the meeting as a vague memory, wondering why Alex didn't say anything more to her younger self. Alex eventually meets Kate at her then boyfriend's party however, he doesn't mention their exchange of letters because it has not happened to Kate yet. Their correspondence takes them through several events, including Alex finding a book, Jane Austen's Persuasion, at a railway station where Kate said she would have lost it, and Alex taking Kate on a walking tour of his favorite places in Chicago via an annotated map that he leaves in the mailbox. They then discover that they are living exactly two years apart. It is in vain as they are alone at the mailbox. They cautiously look around each time the flag changes, hoping to somehow spot the other.
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She impulsively drives back to the lake house, finds Alex's letter, and writes back.Īlex and Kate continue passing messages to each other via the mailbox, and each watches its flag go up and down as the message leaves and the reply arrives as they wait at the mailbox. On Valentine's Day 2006, Kate witnesses a traffic accident near Daley Plaza and tries to save the male victim, unsuccessfully. The dog, Jack, then becomes owned by both Kate and Alex within their places in time. Baffled, Alex writes back, placing the letter in the mailbox, asking how Kate knew about the paw prints since the house was unoccupied until he arrived. During the subsequent restoration of the house, a dog runs through Alex's paint and leaves fresh paw prints right where Kate said they would be. The house is neglected, with no sign of paw prints anywhere. Two years earlier, in 2004, Alex Wyler, an architect, arrives at the lake house and finds Kate's letter in the mailbox. Kate leaves a note in the mailbox asking the next tenant to forward her mail, adding that the paint-embedded pawprints on the path leading to the house were already there when she arrived.
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Kate Forster is leaving a lake house that she has been renting near Chicago.