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In 1991 in New York City, 11-year-old Alyssa "Ally" Craig is waiting with her mother for the subway on the F Line at 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue. Suddenly, the pair are mugged by two young men who then shoot her mother before boarding the train. Ally is left scarred by the events and refuses to travel by subway again.
Ten years after her mother's death, 21-year-old Ally (Emilie De Ravin) is a student at NYU. She lives at home with her overprotective father, Neil (Chris Cooper), a NYPD detective who worries that she is becoming too guarded.
Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson) is a moody, directionless, yet good-moraled 21-year-old, who is auditing classes at NYU and working in the university bookstore. He has had a strained relationship with his businessman father, Charles (Pierce Brosnan), since his brother Michael's suicide years before. He now writes to Michael in his diary. Charles also appears to ignore his youngest child, Caroline (Ruby Jerins), of whom Tyler is very protective.
While out in the city one night with his best friend, Aidan (Tate Ellington), Tyler gets involved in somebody else's fight and ends up being arrested by Neil. Charles bails Tyler out but he appears unappreciative and doesn't stick around long enough to have a conversation with his father. The following day at school, Aidan sees Neil dropping Ally off, realizing that she is his daughter. He approaches Tyler with the idea to get back at the detective by persuading him to sleep with and ultimately dump Ally. Tyler reluctantly agrees. They go for dinner and kiss at the end of the night, and then continue seeing one another more and more, which eventually leads to a relationship. While at Tyler's apartment one night, Aidan gets Ally very drunk and she ends up crashing there. The following day, she and her father have a fight over it, ending with Neil hitting her in the face. Disgusted, Ally moves in with Tyler and Aidan. They bond of their family losses and soon fall in love.
Meanwhile, Caroline, who is a budding artist, is featured in an art show. Tyler tries to convince his father to attend the show, but he goes away on business. Tyler angrily confronts him after the show, which drives a further wedge between the two. Later, Neil's partner recognizes Tyler with Ally on a train coming from a beach holiday with his family. Neil breaks into Tyler's apartment and confronts Tyler. Tyler provokes Neil by confessing to Aidan's plan and his initial reason for meeting Ally, which in turn forces Tyler to confess everything to Ally. She leaves him angrily and returns to her father's home. Also, Caroline is bullied by a group of classmates at a birthday party; they cut her hair off, and when they tease her in front of Tyler, he turns violent and ends up in jail again. Charles is impressed that Tyler stood up for his sister, and they begin to reconnect.
Tyler and Ally remain alienated and away from each other until Aidan visits her to explain that only he is to blame, and that Tyler was sincerely in love with her. They are then shown to be back together, as they walk with Caroline in the park. Later, Charles asks Tyler to meet with him and his lawyers at his office. Charles takes Caroline to school and is late, so Tyler waits in his office, where he sees, on Charles's computer, a screensaver of pictures of Tyler, Michael and Caroline when they were younger, showing that he cares for them.
After Charles drops Caroline off at school, she sits in her classroom, where the teacher writes the date on the blackboard as September 11, 2001. Tyler looks out at Manhattan from the window of his father's office—which is revealed to be located on the uppermost floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Once the 9/11 terrorist attacks begin, the rest of the family (along with Aidan and Ally) look, horrified, at the towers before the camera pans over the rubble, showing Tyler's diary. In a voice-over of his diary, Tyler reveals to Michael that he loves him, and he forgives him for killing himself. Tyler is buried next to Michael.
Some time later, Caroline and Charles seem to have a healthy father-daughter relationship. Aidan, who has since gotten a tattoo of Tyler's name on his arm, is working hard in school and Ally is finally taking the subway again, after having avoided it since her mother's death. The film ends as she looks at the camera with a sad smile.
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