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The Vow
Paige Collins and her husband Leo come out of a movie theater on a snowy evening. On their way home, at a stop sign, Paige unbuckles her seatbelt to lean over and kiss Leo. At that very moment, a salt truck rams their car from behind and Paige crashes through the windshield. Both of them are rushed to a hospital.
As Leo, in a voice-over, talks about how "moments of impact help in finding who we are," his relationship with Paige is explored – their courtship, engagement, and wedding at the Art Institute of Chicago, all interwoven with the present. Paige is put into an induced coma, and later regains consciousness to discover she has lost all of her memories. Paige's parents, Bill and Rita Thornton, learn about this and visit her, meeting Leo for the first time.
Paige does not understand how Leo could be married to her, yet not have met her own parents. She finds it even stranger that he does not know either. Nor does Paige understand why she left law school, broke off an engagement with her previous fiancé, Jeremy, and lost contact with her family and friends. Needing evidence of her relationship with Leo, he plays her a voice message as proof. Paige is against the idea of moving back in with her parents, so decides to return to Leo, hoping it will help her regain her lost memories. She is welcomed home with a surprise party thrown by her friends, none of whom she can recall, so she feels overwhelmed.
The next day, Paige ventures out to a café she regularly visited, but loses her way back. Paige calls Rita for help and returns to Leo. That evening, Bill and Rita invite the couple to dinner; later, Paige's sister Gwen and her fiancé invite them out to a bar. Leo comes to feel that he doesn't fit in with Paige's family. Paige later meets Jeremy again at the bar. Realizing that she is becoming infatuated with Jeremy, Leo persists in trying to help her regain her memory. Paige secretly meets Jeremy at his office, and asks him about their broken engagement. His answer is ambiguous; he is still clearly attracted to her. While Leo gives Paige a tour of her own studio, she suddenly lashes out at him. With Gwen's wedding approaching, Paige decides to stay with her parents. Leo asks Paige out on a date and spends the night with her, but the relationship is further strained when Bill attempts to persuade him to divorce her. When Jeremy begins taunting Leo, he eventually loses his temper and punches Jeremy. Paige rejoins law school and a heartbroken Leo reaches an epiphany that her memory may never return.
At a Trader Joe's, Paige meets Diane, an old friend who is unaware of Paige's amnesia. It's revealed that Diane had an affair with Bill, thus explaining why Paige has been estranged from her family. When Paige angrily confronts Rita about this, she tells Paige that she decided to stay with her father for everything he had done right instead of leaving him for one transgression. Reuniting with Leo, Paige learns that he wanted to earn her love instead of driving her away from her family. While in class, Paige starts to take up sketching. Despite Bill's misgivings about quitting law school, Paige reassures him that she will always be his daughter no matter what. Paige continues her interest in art, eventually returning to sculpting and drawing. Jeremy confesses he broke up with his girlfriend in hopes of winning Paige back, but she turns him down, stating that she needs to know what life would be like without him.
As the seasons change, Leo again reflects on "moments of impact," whose potential for change has ripple effects far beyond what can be predicted. Back in her room, Paige finds a menu card on which she had written her wedding vows. She later meets Leo at the cafe and, despite admitting the end of their relationship, they agree to have dinner together and walk off arm in arm.