A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
A movie version being inevitable, this Valentine’s Day gift to the world of schlock cinema, scripted by Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks) and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy), tries valiantly to elevate the Twilight fan fiction-inspired source material to a level of melodrama worthy of ‘60s stuff like A Summer Place or Strangers When We Meet.