What do you do when you've loved someone literally all their life? Five-year-old Danny is with his father, a U.S. Army doctor, when he is faced with an emergency - Grace Swan (Brenda Blethyn), an old friend of the family, is in the last stages of labour and there's no time to get her to the hospital. Danny ends up helping his father deliver the infant and, moments after birth, Danny is holding the baby in his arms, convinced this is the girl he will marry someday. 20 years later, Danny (Jude Law), now an artist educated in England after the death of his father, is back in the States to help restore a church. He meets Anna (Gretchen Mol), the girl he helped deliver - however, she's become cold and cynical, and has a fiancé to boot. Against all the odds, can Danny win her heart?