Can you resist the depths of the human heart‎?‎ It is 1958 and seventeen‎-year‎-old Landon is revelling in his youth‎:‎ dating girls and even claiming to have been in love‎.‎ He is a world apart from shy‎,‎ reclusive Jamie Sullivan‎,‎ a Baptist‎'‎s daughter who carries a bible with her school books‎,‎ cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage‎.‎ But fate will intervene‎.‎ Forced to partner up at the school dance‎,‎ Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth‎-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years‎.‎ In the months that follow‎,‎ Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart‎,‎ and takes a decision that is so stunning it will lead him irrevocably down the road to manhood ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎