Plot summary

The twenty-six year-old waitress of a cafe Louisa "Lou" Clark is a charming woman that lives with her parents Bernard and Josie Clark, her sister Katrina "Treena" Clark and her grandfather in a small town in the United Kingdom. Lou supports the whole family since Bernard is unemployed and Treena is a student. When she loses her job, she applies to the position of caregiver of the wealthy banker Will Traynor, who was hit by a motorcycle two years ago and became tetraplegic. Will's mother Camilla Traynor, supported by her husband Stephen Traynor, hires the inexperienced but happy Lou to take care of her son together with his nurse Nathan. When Lou meets Will, she finds a bitter, cynical and depressed young man that had lost the will to live. Further, she learns that the handsome Will was a successful athlete and banker. Will she lift his spirit?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil