Setsuko Kawashima is a lonely, middle-aged office worker in Tokyo who is aloof from her co-workers, lives in a cluttered studio apartment and is estranged from her sister, Ayako. One day, she meets with her niece Mika, who tells Setsuko that she signed up for a year of English classes but can no longer afford to attend, as she needs to save money and keep working. Mika persuades Setsuko to buy her out and sends her to the school for a free first class. At the school, Setsuko meets John, an American teacher who hugs her warmly, gives her the American name of Lucy and a bright blonde wig so she can adopt an American persona. She meets Takeshi Komori, a classmate in the English class who goes by the name Tom. Setsuko is quickly charmed by John and decides to continue attending classes. At their next session, she learns that John has abruptly quit to return to the United States. Outside the school, she spots John and Mika kissing and getting into a cab. Ayako informs her that Mika has moved to the US. Setsuko returns to English class, but finds the new teacher too conventional and leaves the school. When she receives a postcard from Mika containing her address in Los Angeles, Setsuko impulsively decides to follow her, with Ayako insisting on joining her, despite her strained relationship with her daughter Mika. It is revealed that Setsuko harbors resentment towards Ayako for stealing and marrying her boyfriend. Arriving in Los Angeles, the two are surprised to find only John at home, who claims that Mika has left him and he has no idea where she is. After raiding his room, however, Ayako discovers a postcard sent by Mika from a motel in San Diego. The sisters have John rent a car and drive them to the motel where Mika was last heard from. While waiting for Mika to reappear, John offers to teach Setsuko how to drive and the two end up having sex. Later that night, Setsuko goes to a tattoo parlor to get the same tattoo as John, but when she shows it to him, he rebuffs her. The next morning, Ayako confronts John and tells him to take her to Mika. He goes to his house where he introduces Ayako to his estranged wife and daughter, who know where Mika is but will not tell him. Setsuko, left alone at the motel, runs into Mika who tells her that she broke up with John after discovering his family. They have a picnic near the beach where Mika teases Setsuko about having a crush on John, and Setsuko responds by revealing that she had sex with John. The two women engage in a physical altercation, culminating in Mika jumping off a cliff in a suicide attempt, but she survives. At the hospital, an enraged John asks Setsuko if she told Mika about them. She insists that she loves John, but he rejects her and drives off. Ayako tells her to stay out of their lives. Back in Tokyo, Setsuko learns she is being transferred to another department, prompting her to quit. Shortly after leaving the office, she overhears her co-workers laughing and cheering. Distraught over losing John, her job, and her family, she attempts suicide by overdosing on pills at home. She is found by Takeshi, who makes her vomit the pills. She tries to seduce him, but he kindly rejects her advances. As they head to a subway station, Takeshi reveals that his son killed himself and that he blames himself for being too strict, which is why he enjoys slipping into his Tom persona. He asks Setsuko for a hug, and she agrees.

Black mine inspector Ralph Burton becomes trapped in a cave-in at a Pennsylvania coal mine. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after five days they slow down and then stop completely, along with the drainage pumps keeping the shaft from flooding. Ralph frantically digs his own way out, but upon emerging from the mine, he finds a world devoid of any people, living or dead. Discarded newspapers provide an explanation: one proclaims "UN Retaliates For Use Of Atomic Poison", another that "Millions Flee From Cities! End Of The World". Ralph later plays tapes at a radio station and learns that an unknown country had dispersed large quantities of radioactive sodium isotopes into the atmosphere. The resulting lethal dust cloud spread around the world, killing every human who came into contact with it over a five-day period before the isotopes decayed into a harmless state. Ralph travels to New York City in search of survivors, but in vain. He restores power to a building where he takes up residence. To stave off loneliness, he takes in a pair of mannequins. As the solitude starts to become intolerable, he throws a mannequin off the building, and hears a scream. Sarah Crandall, a White woman in her early twenties, had been living in the city and surreptitiously observing Ralph for some time, but was afraid to reveal herself. She screamed because she thought Ralph had committed suicide. Ralph, an engineer, gets utilities working again and raises their standard of living, but the two remain in separate apartment buildings. Even as they become friends and grow closer, vestiges of racial division become evident when Sarah casually uses the phrase that she is " free, white, and 21 " to describe her ability to make decisions. Ralph describes the phrase as "an arrow in my guts." In the same conversation, Sarah laments that "there is nobody left to marry." Resentful, Ralph refuses Sarah's suggestion that she move into his apartment building. Ralph maintains his distance when it becomes clear that Sarah is developing stronger feelings for him, unsure how she will react if they discover others alive. Despite living in a post-apocalyptic world, tensions remain that were instilled by the mores earned in a racially segregated American society. Ralph regularly broadcasts on the radio in the hope of contacting other survivors, and eventually receives a transmission in French, confirming there are others. One day, ill white man Benson Thacker arrives by boat. Ralph and Sarah nurse him back to health, but once he recovers, Ben sets his sights on Sarah and sees Ralph as a rival. Ralph is torn by conflicting emotions. He avoids Sarah as much as possible to give Ben every opportunity to win her affections, but cannot quite bring himself to leave the city. Ben finally grows tired of the whole situation, realizing he stands little chance with Sarah as long as Ralph remains nearby. He warns Ralph that the next time he sees him, he will try to kill him. The two armed men hunt each other through the empty streets. Finally, Ralph passes by the United Nations headquarters, climbs the steps in Ralph Bunche Park, and reads the inscription "They shall beat their swords into plowshares. And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war any more", from the Book of Isaiah. He throws down his rifle and goes unarmed to confront Ben, who in turn finds himself unable to shoot his foe. Defeated, he starts walking away. Sarah appears. When Ralph starts to turn away from her, she makes him take her hand; then she calls to Ben and gives him her other hand. Together, the three walk down the street to build a new future together. The film ends not with "The End" but with "The Beginning."

Tess McGill is a working-class woman from Staten Island who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to an executive position. Having earned a business degree via night school, she works as a secretary at a stockbroker firm in lower Manhattan. There, Tess's boss and male co-workers treat her like a bimbo, despite benefiting from her intelligence and business instincts. After one humiliation too many from her scornful boss (he fixes her up with a rival executive, who only wants to do cocaine and have sex), Tess retaliates by posting on a VDT what she thinks of him and of what he's done. This greatly amuses Tess's colleagues, but also gets her fired. Shortly thereafter, Tess lands another job, this time as an administrative assistant to Katharine Parker, an associate partner at the mergers-and-acquisitions firm Petty Marsh. At first, Katharine seems supportive of Tess, encouraging her to share ideas. Eventually, however, she insists that Tess's proposed purchase of a radio network by Trask Industries would not work out. When Katharine breaks her leg skiing, she asks Tess to house-sit. While there, Tess discovers meeting notes which reveal Katharine's intention to pass off the Trask Industries idea as her own. Returning home, Tess finds her live-in boyfriend having sex with another woman. Tess dumps him. With Katharine still in the hospital, Tess uses her boss's connections and clothes to ramrod the Trask proposal. With help from her friend Cyn, Tess gives herself a makeover, borrowing Katharine's stylish clothes to look more professional. Tess schedules a meeting with Jack Trainer, a mergers-and-acquisitions associate from another company. The night before the meeting, she attends (on Katharine's behalf) a dinner hosted by Trainer's firm. Trainer is attracted to Tess, and approaches her at the bar. Yet Jack does not reveal his name, even after she asks directly whether he knows the man she's slated to meet with (himself). Trainer brings Tess to his apartment, after she passes out in a cab from a combination of Valium and alcohol. Tess leaves early the next day, believing that they slept together. Arriving for her meeting with Trainer and his associates, she is surprised to recognize him from the previous night. They both feign non-recognition. After the meeting, Tess worries that her deal has failed, until Jack arrives at Tess's office. He assures her that they did not sleep together, and that he wants to move forward with her idea. Together, they prepare the financials for her merger proposal, which they present successfully to Trask. Tess and Jack celebrate by giving in to their attraction, and ending up in bed. Thereafter, Tess discovers that Jack has been involved with Katharine, but was planning to break up with her when she went skiing and got injured. Katharine returns home on the day of the merger meeting. While Tess is helping her get settled, Katharine brings up the Trask merger, claiming she was intent on taking it to Jack, and on eventually giving Tess credit for it. Katharine adds that Jack's strict ethical code has prevented him from looking at another's ideas without verifying the source, ever since he was accused of stealing himself. Jack arrives in response to a call from Katharine, who unsuccessfully tries to seduce him. Tess avoids running into Jack at Katharine's apartment, but accidentally leaves her notebook there before she departs for the meeting. Katharine discovers Tess's deception by finding the notebook, which includes Jack's phone numbers and the scheduled merger meeting. At the meeting, Tess brings up what Katharine told her about Jack's ethical code, and about his being accused of stealing. Jack insists that it was all a lie. Then Katharine crashes the meeting and outs Tess as her secretary. She accuses Tess of stealing the Trask merger idea. Unable to defend herself, Tess apologizes profusely and leaves. Tess returns to Petty Marsh a day later, intent on cleaning out her desk. Instead she encounters Jack, Katharine, Trask, and members of Trask's board. Jack sticks up for Tess, who points out a news item which presents a possible risk to the merger's success. In an elevator pitch she explains to Trask what inspired her plan for his radio acquisition. Trask confronts Katharine, who, when she is unable to explain where Tess's plan came from, is fired. Tess lands an entry-level job with Trask Industries. She also moves in with Jack. On her first day at Trask, Tess meets a colleague named Alice, whom she takes for her new supervisor. Alice explains that she is actually Tess's secretary. Tess makes it very clear that she considers Alice a colleague, thus proving herself very different from Katharine. At the first opportunity, Tess calls Cyn from her new office and tells her that she has made it.

In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams is stranded penniless in Britain and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver and Roderick Montpelier. They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope, only telling him that it contains some money. Oliver asserts that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick insists that it would have to be spent for it to be of any use. Once Adams gets over the shock of discovering how much the note is worth, he tries to return it to the brothers, but is told that they have left for a month. He then finds a letter in the envelope, explaining the wager and promising him a job if he can avoid spending the note for the month. At first, everything goes as Oliver had predicted. Adams is mistaken for an eccentric millionaire and has no trouble getting food, clothes, and a hotel suite on credit, just by showing his note. The story of the note is reported in the newspapers. Adams is welcomed into exclusive social circles, meeting the American ambassador and English aristocracy. He becomes very friendly with Portia Lansdowne, the niece of the Duchess of Cromarty. Then fellow American Lloyd Hastings asks him to back a business venture. Hastings tells Adams that he does not have to put up any money himself; the mere association will allow Hastings to raise the money that he needs to develop his gold mine by selling shares. Trouble arises when the Duke of Frognal, who had been unceremoniously evicted from the suite Adams now occupies, hides the note as a joke. When Adams is unable to produce the note, panic breaks out amongst the shareholders and Adams's creditors. All is straightened out in the end, and Adams is able to return the note to the Montpelier brothers at the end of the month.

During the WWII American occupation of Italy, American GIs are quartered in the homes of town residents in the village of San Forino, and recently orphaned Carla "Campbell" quarters at her small home one airman at a time. The 16-year old Carla seeks comfort and sleeps with each of the three American GIs quartered alone with her in the course of 10 days: Cpl. Phil Newman, Lt. Justin Young, and Sgt. Walter Braddock. After each, in turn, moves on, Carla discovers herself pregnant. Uncertain of which is the father, Carla writes to each of the three, who are unaware of the existence of the other two, to support "his" daughter, Gia, with monthly financial payments. Over the next 20 years, Carla shrewdly invests the funds, buying a wine vineyard that she runs with the help of her handsome manager, Vittorio, and in time sends Gia to an American boarding school in Switzerland. To protect her reputation, as well as the reputation of her child, Carla has raised the girl to believe her mother is the widow of a nonexistent army captain named Eddie Campbell, a name she borrowed from a can of soup (otherwise he would have been Captain Coca-Cola, the only other term in English she knew at the time). As the widow of Captain Campbell, Carla gains social prominence in the community that would have shunned her as an unwed mother. The only individual in the community who does not pay her deference is the Contessa, a social rival. Twenty years after the end of World War II, the three ex-airmen who quartered with Carla attend a unit-wide reunion of the 293rd Squadron of the 15th Air Force in the village where they were stationed. The men are accompanied by their wives, and in the Newmans' case, three obnoxious children. Carla is forced into a series of comic situations as she tries to keep the "three fathers"—each one anxious to meet his daughter Gia for the first time—from discovering her secret. At the same time, Carla strives to convince Gia not to run off to Paris to be with a much older married man who will take her to Brazil. Vittorio, Carla's long-time companion, also must adjust to the unraveling situation, setting aside his ego to emotionally support Carla and Gia through the crisis. Meanwhile, Gia is anxious to learn more from the veterans at the reunion about her nonexistent father, Captain Eddie Campbell, while Carla tries to assure her that people's memories are short. The wives of Newman, Young, and Braddock meet Carla and Gia at the local beauty parlor. Moved by Gia's account of her father's connection to the squadron, they advocate for a memorial chapel to be named after the gallant Capt. Campbell. Eventually the "three fathers" and their wives stumble on the truth when Carla's housekeeper inadvertently informs them, mistakenly assuming that the three men who come to see Carla together have learned the truth. When confronted, Mrs. Campbell admits she does not know which of the three men is Gia's father. She challenges the men by asking them what kind of father each would have been, particularly because they have never been there for all the small but important life events of their daughter. Provoked by this, the potential fathers talk to Gia and insist that she cannot run off. Vittorio also helps Gia understand her mother's motivations for deception to protect her child and herself. At the town's dedication ceremony for the chapel, Carla says that Eddie Campbell would have been too humble to accept the honor and insists that her social rival, the Contessa, accept the dedication of the chapel in the name of the people of San Fiorino. The "fathers" cease the support payments, and the Braddocks, who cannot have children of their own, agree to have Gia stay with them while she attends college in the US. Vittorio stays on with Carla after she convinces him that he will be her sole romantic interest and business partner.

Architect Sam Baldwin moves from Chicago to Seattle with his eight-year-old son, Jonah, to start a new life following the death of his beloved wife, Maggie. Over a year later, on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls a nationally syndicated radio talk show seeking advice on how to help his father find happiness again. He persuades a reluctant Sam to go on the air and talk about how much he misses Maggie. Sam describes her as his soulmate, explaining that he knew she was the one when he first took her hand and believes he could never find true love twice. Touched by his story, thousands of women across the country write to him. One listener is Annie Reed, a Baltimore Sun reporter. She is engaged to the sensible and supportive Walter, but feels something is missing from their relationship. Her friend and editor, Becky, suggests Annie longs for the kind of destined romance found "in a movie", although Annie dismisses the idea of magical love or fate. Inspired by the romance film An Affair to Remember, Annie writes Sam a letter proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building in New York City on Valentine's Day. She decides against sending it, but Becky secretly mails it. Encouraged by the response to his radio appearance and by his friends, Sam begins dating a co-worker, Victoria, whom Jonah vehemently dislikes. When Jonah reads Annie's letter, he instinctively believes she could be the one for his father, but Sam dismisses the idea because of the distance between Seattle and Baltimore. Jonah's friend Jessica urges him to reply on Sam's behalf, agreeing to the meeting. After Jonah calls the radio show again and reveals that Sam is dating, Annie travels to Seattle on a work assignment arranged by Becky as a pretext to learn more about him. While dropping Victoria off at the airport, Sam notices Annie leaving her flight and is immediately captivated by her, unaware of who she is. Later, Annie secretly watches Sam and Jonah playing together on the beach. The following day, she visits Sam's houseboat but mistakes his sister, Suzy, for Victoria. A passing vehicle nearly strikes Annie and sounds its horn, alerting Sam to her presence. They briefly stare at one another before Annie, embarrassed, leaves. Back in Baltimore, Annie reads Jonah's immature reply and concludes she has made a mistake pursuing Sam. She decides to commit to Walter and travel to New York to meet him on Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, Jessica uses her travel agent mother's computer to book Jonah a flight to New York to find Annie. When Sam learns where Jonah has gone, he flies after him, and they reunite on the Empire State Building's observation deck. During dinner with Walter, Annie confesses her doubts about their relationship, everything that has happened since hearing Sam's radio broadcast, and they amicably end their engagement. Seeing the Empire State Building illuminated in the shape of a heart, Annie takes it as a sign. She rushes there, arriving on the observation deck moments after Sam and Jonah have left in the elevator. When Sam and Jonah return to retrieve Jonah's misplaced backpack, Sam and Annie recognize each other. After introducing themselves, Annie takes Sam's hand, and the three leave together.

Jay Bulworth, a Democratic U.S. Senator from California, faces a primary challenge from a fiery young populist. Once politically liberal, Bulworth has over time conceded to more conservative politics and to accepting donations from large corporations. While he and his wife have been having affairs with each other's knowledge for years, they maintain a happy facade for the sake of their public image. Tired of politics and unhappy with life, Bulworth makes plans to kill himself, and negotiates a $10 million life insurance policy with his daughter as the beneficiary. Knowing that a suicide would void the policy, he contracts to have himself assassinated within two days. He arrives extremely drunk at a Los Angeles campaign event, where he freely speaks his mind in the presence of the C-SPAN film crew following his campaign. After dancing all night in an underground club and smoking marijuana, he begins rapping in public. His frank, offensive remarks make him an instant media darling and re-energize his campaign. He becomes romantically involved with Nina, a young black activist, who begins to join him on campaign stops. He is pursued by the paparazzi, his insurance company, his campaign managers, and an increasingly adoring public, all the while awaiting his impending assassination. After a televised debate during which Bulworth derides insurance companies and the American healthcare system while drinking from a flask, he retreats to the home of Nina's family in impoverished South Central Los Angeles. He witnesses a group of children selling crack and intervenes to rescue them from an encounter with a racist police officer, and later discovers they work for L.D., a local drug kingpin to whom Nina's brother owes money. Bulworth eventually makes it to a television appearance arranged earlier by his campaign manager, during which he raps and repeats verbatim statements that Nina and L.D. have told him about the lives of poor black people and their opinions of various American institutions, such as education and employment. Eventually he offers the solution that "everybody should fuck everybody" until everyone is "all the same color," stunning the audience and his interviewer. Bulworth spends the film fearful of a man who had been following him under the assumption that he was the assassin trying to murder him. After the man finally pushes Bulworth to complete terror, he corners Bulworth on a set at the television studio and begins photographing Bulworth with Nina, revealing himself to be simply paparazzi. Bulworth, frustrated, flees with Nina, who reveals that she is the assassin he indirectly hired (ostensibly to make the money needed to pay off her brother's debt) and will now not carry out the job. Relieved, Bulworth falls asleep for the first time in days in Nina's arms. He sleeps for 36 hours, during which the media speculates over his sudden absence leading up to election day. Bulworth wins the primary in a landslide, and L.D. allows Nina's brother to work off the debt. Bulworth accepts a new campaign for the presidency during his victory speech, but is suddenly shot by Graham Crockett, an agent of the insurance company that was fearful of Bulworth's recent push for single-payer health care, who makes a quick escape. Bulworth's fate is left ambiguous. The final scene shows an elderly vagrant, whom Bulworth met previously, standing alone outside a hospital. He exhorts Bulworth, who is presumably inside, to not be "a ghost" but "a spirit" which, as he had mentioned earlier, can only happen if you have "a song". In the final shot of the film, he asks the same of the audience.

Bank loan officer Carl Allen has become withdrawn since his divorce from his wife Stephanie. Having an increasingly negative outlook and ignoring his friends Peter and Rooney, he misses Peter and his fiancée Lucy's engagement party. His old colleague Nick suggests that Carl attend a motivational seminar that encourages people to seize every opportunity to say "yes". At the seminar, Carl meets inspirational guru Terrence, who has him enter a " covenant with the universe" and say yes to everything asked of him. As they leave the seminar, Carl says "yes" to a homeless man's request and becomes stranded, out of gas, and with no battery life on his cell phone in Elysian Park. Walking to a gas station, he meets Allison, an eccentric young woman. She gives him a hectic ride back to his car on her scooter and, when he asks her to make out with him, she kisses him before leaving. A few days later, he is offered oral sex by his elderly neighbour Tillie for helping her put up shelves; when he declines and immediately experiences bad luck, he returns and surprisingly enjoys the moment. After having a pleasant workday, Carl is convinced that he must continue to say yes, as his previous misery was the consequence of refusing opportunities. He renews his friendships with Peter and Rooney; builds a bond with his nerdy boss, Norman; assists Lucy with her bridal shower; and learns to speak Korean, play the guitar, and fly airplanes. Accepting a band flyer outside of a coffee shop, Carl sees an idiosyncratic band called Munchausen by Proxy; the lead singer is Allison. He is charmed by her quirkiness; she is delighted by his spontaneity, and they begin dating. They sneak into the Hollywood Bowl and sing " Can't Buy Me Love " by The Beatles, among getting up to other hijinks together. Carl earns a promotion at work after approving several microloans and, using his guitar lessons, plays Third Eye Blind 's song " Jumper " to persuade a man not to commit suicide. Carl and Allison meet at the airport for a spontaneous weekend excursion. Having decided to take the first plane out of town, regardless of its destination, they end up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they bond more. Allison confesses her love for Carl and asks him to move in with her, and he hesitantly agrees. While checking in for the return flight, Carl and Allison are detained by FBI agents who, due to Carl's recent erratic behaviour, have profiled him as a potential terrorist. Peter travels to Nebraska as Carl's attorney and explains the situation of Carl's responding to every request and opportunity with yes, simultaneously revealing the truth to Allison. Deciding she cannot trust him, she leaves Carl and refuses to return his phone calls. Having almost forgotten about Lucy's shower, Carl quickly arranges a major surprise party, as well as setting up Norman and Rooney with Soo-Mi and Tillie, respectively. After the party, Carl receives a tearful phone call from Stephanie, whose new boyfriend has walked out on her. When he goes to comfort her, she kisses him, asking him to spend the night. After Carl says no, his luck takes a turn for the worse. Deciding to end the covenant, Carl returns to the convention centre and hides in the backseat of Terrence's convertible so he can be released. However, he pops up while Terrence is driving, startling him and causing a collision. Once Carl regains consciousness in the hospital, Terrence tells him the covenant was merely a starting point to open Carl's mind to other possibilities, not to permanently take away his ability to say no. Freed from this restraint, Carl finds Allison teaching her sports-photography class and admits that he is not ready to move in with her yet but genuinely loves her, and they reconcile. Carl persuades the attendees of Terrence's next seminar to donate the clothes off their backs to charity, so Terrence is greeted by an entirely nude convention centre.

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.