The movie opens with a man named Nick Vaughan, playing his trumpet at the
train terminal station. Soon, the crowd at the station goes away and it becomes empty.
He sits on the floor at the station. He sees a girl running. Her name is Brooke Dalton.
She drops her phone where he was sitting, and it has broken. She is in a hurry to catch the train,
so she didn't notice her phone dropping down. She reached the train, when it was leaving the
station. She missed it, she wanted to go to New Haven from Grand Central in an emergency.
She arrives back at the terminal worried about the train. Suddenly she hears the announcement
of the station closing soon. She sees a man who works there and asks him if she
can use the same ticket she has at another station. The man tells her that she cannot
use the ticket in any other station and that other stations are closing soon too.
Nick was still sitting there and noticed her being stressed. He goes to her and gives her
the cell phone that she dropped earlier. She says thank you and leaves. Nick also
comes out as the station was about to close soon. He sees Brooke standing
on the street. He politely asks her why she was standing there. She informs him
that her purse was stolen at a bar. It had the money, the credit card,
and her ID. All she has now is the thirteen-dollar ticket and a broken phone. She is helpless.
Nick feels sorry for her and offers to help, he questions her about where she was heading
to. She tells him that she is going to Boston but missed her train. He goes to
a cab driver and asks him to leave Brooke in Boston. She quickly comes and tells the cab
driver that she wants to go to New Haven. The cab driver agrees to take her there,
but she would only be able to reach by morning. He demands five hundred dollars which was too much,
and she didn't have money since her purse was stolen.
Nick gives him his credit card but it is declined. The cab driver refuses
to take her to New Haven as they didn't have money. Nick tries to call a friend for help,
but the phone also dies. Brooke is furious about the situation. She mocks him for having
things that do not work. Nick apologizes and replies in a sarcastic tone that he
has other things to do but he was trying to help her. She is enraged and leaves the place.
She walks and turns in a street where she sees some thugs strolling on the
street. There is no one else there and she feels unsafe walking alone there. Suddenly,
Nick arrives and walks with her. The guy goes away without causing any harm to Brooke. She
says thanks to him and apologizes for her rude behavior before. He shows his concern
and tells her it was fine; he questions if she has any friends in the city. Unfortunately,
she does not know anyone in the city and her purse was stolen so has nowhere to go.
Nick questions her if she remembers the name of the bar where her purse got stolen. She
tells him that it got stolen from Downtown. He informs her that most of the thieves take
out the card and cash and dump the purse, so maybe they can check the bar if they can find
her purse in any trash can. They walk to the bar and introduce themselves to each other.
They reach the bar and search in the trash cans everywhere. They didn't find the purse. At last,
nick has an idea, he goes to the bartender to ask if he knows anything about the purse.
He tells nick that he does not know anything about it. Brooke interrupts and informs the
bartender that it was of sentimental value, and she will pay a lot if she
gets her purse back. The bartender asks them to wait. While the bartender wasn't there,
Brooke tells Nick that she is thankful for his help. He informs her that he was at the Grand
Central station practicing his trumpet, as he has an audition the next day. She informs him
that she was in the city to buy a painting as she is an art consultant. Soon, the bartender
arrives and gives them a shop address where her purse could have possibly been given.
They take the address and come out of the bar. Nick informs her that the address where she is
going is not safe and she cannot go there alone. He offers to help her and tells her
that he will go there with her. At first, she refuses as he has an audition the next day
and he is helping her for no reason at all. She agrees and walks together to the shop.
While they are walking, they talk about nick's audition and his passion to play the trumpet. He
talks about his inspirations. Brooke tells him that her husband would be delighted,
and will thank nick if he gets to know that he was helping her in a very difficult time. She informs
him that she is not wearing a wedding ring as her ring is getting fixed in Boston because it broke.
They arrive at the shop and nick asks for her purse details. She tells him that her purse has
a child's handwriting written B.D which her stepson wrote. Nick questions why it is B.D
and not any other letter. She informs him that her name is Brooke Dalton and she lied to him
before about her name being Carrie. She excuses that she couldn't tell a stranger everything,
so she had to lie. Nick is amazed to hear this; he asks her to wait in a bar near the shop.
Nick goes inside the shop, and a man opens the door and asks him about the specifications of the
purse. He shows him all the purses they had that were valuable. He checks some of the purses and
finds the one that belongs to Brooke. The man tells him that if he wants to take the purse,
he has to pay five hundred dollars. Nick informs him that he has already paid the bartender.
On the other hand, Brook uses the public phone to call her husband. Her husband's
name is Michael. He asks her about New York, and she informs him about the painting that
she has sold. Her husband tells her that he will arrive home early in the morning,
and they can have breakfast together. Brooke asks him to rest and then come
back when he is rested, but he tells her that he can rest when he comes home.
Brook keeps the phone and arrives at the shop where nick is. She called the police,
so they arrive at the shop. The police ring the shop's doorbell. The man sees
the police and punches Nick's face. He grabs the purse and runs away.
Nick comes out of the shop and Brooke apologizes to nick because she called
the police. She didn't get her purse back which meant that she can't go home.
They both walk on the street when she informs nick about her marriage complications. She
tells him that her marriage is over as she had to reach home before her husband does.
Nick doubts her that she might be having an affair and she's afraid of getting caught by
her husband. She gets angry hearing such remarks about herself and asks nick to leave. She walks
away and he comes her way and informs her, that his night was ruined before she met him,
and now it will be ruined if she leaves. He offers to help her and make her go home before morning.
Nick calls a car service. He asks the charges for reaching Boston, but they were charging too much,
and nick did not have money. Nick informs Brooke that a friend can help her go home by morning but
he will be at a wedding, so they have to visit a hotel. They get on the transport to go to the
hotel. While they are traveling, Nick plays his trumpet. She finds his music fascinating and
compliments him. They talk about themselves. Nick says that he has an audition by which he can get
selected for the band and he is looking forward to it. While she tells him that she has a brother
and a husband who works in finance. She further adds that she met her husband in London and worked
there but had no friends. He was already married and had kids, they had a problem, so his wife left
with a guy they knew and took the kids, so the last thing he wanted was to be involved with her.
Soon, they reach the hotel and enter the place where his friend's wedding was. He looks around
but he couldn't find his friend. He sees a board and finds out that he was in the wrong place. All
of a sudden, a man spots him and asks about the band that about to perform at the party. Nick
tells him that they are stuck in traffic and won't be coming any sooner. He pretends that he is a
professional band player so he offers him that Brooke will sing, and he can play the trumpet.
They bargain about their charges and nick agrees to five hundred dollars. They perform at the
event when all of a sudden, the band arrives and they have to run away without the money.
They escape and come to a hotel room. Nick leaves a Voicemail to his friend named Danny. He informs
him that he has given him the wrong hotel address. He asks for his help and some cash.
He also calls the receptionist and pretends to be the room occupant, who wants a car that would
go to Boston. Soon, the management of the hotel finds out the truth, and they have to escape.
Suddenly, Nick has an idea that they can use a bus because it is cheap. They go to the bus
station and find out that they have no bus leaving for Boston. While Brooke is sitting nick arrives,
she tells him that she ran out of time and there's nothing she can do now. Nick
advises her to tell her husband the truth that she is in New York. She
informs him that he already knows about it and that she is there to sell a painting.
So she has to figure out a problem she has that she can't solve till she goes back.
Nick borrows a phone from the man sitting at the bus station. Brooke takes it and calls
her friend. She asks her for a favor and tells her about where her home keys are.
Brooke informs her to go near her bed where she will find a letter. She asks
her to keep the letter with her till she comes back, and makes her promise,
that she would not read it. She feels relieved. She comes back to Nick and hugs him.
They walk down the street when Brooke asks him to go to her friend's wedding. He refuses to go
as he would see her ex-girlfriend named Hannah over there. She tells nick that he helped her,
so she has to help him back. She offers to be his girlfriend to make his ex-girlfriend
jealous. He realizes that Hannah will get to know that he is pretending as
Brooke is not his type. She convinces him that Hannah will be jealous if she knows
Nick's girlfriend has changed him. Nick agrees to go to the wedding.
At the wedding, Nick meets Danny. Nick introduces him to Brooke. Danny gives Nick some money to
go to Boston, but he refuses as he has already figured it out as Brooke wasn't in a hurry now.
He offers Brooke a drink, but she politely refuses. Nick tells him that she is taken.
While Danny is talking to Brooke, Nick spots Hannah. She sees him too. She approaches him
and greets him. he introduces her to Brooke. Hannah questions what he has been doing lately.
Nick hesitates to tell her, but Brooke interrupts and tells her that he has an
audition the next day for Duke Terry a famous jazz guy. Suddenly, Cole, Hannah's boyfriend
approaches Hannah and she introduces him to Nick and Brooke. She offers to go for a coffee nearby,
but nick refuses and makes an excuse. Nick and Brooke leave the wedding.
Brooke questions Nick about why he left the wedding. He tells her about Hannah, that he
met her after six years. She consoles him and asks about where they met. Nick informs her that they
met in George Town. He was in pre-med but was more interested in music. So, Hannah was the first one
to notice it and she encouraged him to continue it further. Hannah got a job in Philly in graphic
design. So, one day Nick buys an expensive ring and goes to their apartment. He was excited to
propose to her when she thought it was a good time to take a break, so they had to break up.
Brooke motivates him to face his fears. She advises him that he must make the right choice
and jump on it. Nick understands what Brooke told him and they go back to the wedding. He talks to
Hannah while Brooke waits outside sitting on the footpath. Soon, Nick comes outside, and he
is furious. He does not talk to Brooke properly. She asks him about what happened. He informs her
that Hannah told him it was nice to meet him and invited the three of them for lunch the next day.
Brooke assumes that she might have invited her too, but he tells her
that she is pregnant. Nick feels terrible and tells her, that Hannah was happy to
see him giving auditions in front of Duke Terry's judges as she always believed in
him. Brooke feels sorry for him and consoles him again. They go for a small walk and talk.
Nick informs her that he will go back home the next morning, and won't give the audition as he
only came to New York because of Hannah. Brooke persuades him to give the audition as she loved
his music. While they talk, they see a psychic adviser board. Brooke excitedly tells Nick that
they should go and see their future as they have already talked a lot about their past.
They go and knock on the door and a man appears with a trash bag in
his hands. The man is the clairvoyant. They tell him that they have no money.
The man informs them that he had trouble sleeping, so he could use a bit of their
company and invites them in. they go in and talk for a bit. The man lets them know that
his wife passed away. Soon, the man starts to predict them, and he starts with Nick.
He tells them that according to his mind he is an amazing musician and plays trumpet.
They are amazed to hear his true prediction. When he comes on to Brooke,
he questions her. He tells her that he knows about the choices she has but still,
she feels trapped and is afraid to look at the choices. Brooke asks him what choices she has
while the man tells her that she knows well where she is trapped. She can walk and have a future
with Nick. She informs him that she is married. The man says that he only tells what he sees.
Brooke is a little upset and asks him if she could use his phone. The man guides her to
where the phone is while nick has a little chat with the man. She calls her friend. She
asks about the letter, but her friend informs her that she didn't get the letter, as she couldn't
find the keys. She tried to break into the house by breaking a window with a stone, but the alarm
went on. She panicked and ran away. She says sorry to Brooke while she says that it is okay.
They leave the clairvoyant place and walk on the road. Brooke has been stressed because
of her issue again. Nick tries to cheer her up as he assumes that she might be
feeling upset because of what the clairvoyant said. Brooke informs him that she appreciates
that he is trying to cheer her up, but she is stuck in a mess and got nick involved in it.
She tells him about Michael, her husband. She lets him know that she has become a mess because her
anniversary with Michael was on the seventeen of August. She decided to surprise him while
he was in Atlanta. She opened his computer to check the schedule of his meeting when an
email pops up. She opens an email and gets to know about a girl who is also in Atlanta. Her
husband calls her Lynn. She had read the emails repeatedly and gets to know that her husband
was cheating on her. The emails were written like someone would write them to their lovers.
She tells Nick that her marriage got affected because of this, as she thought everything was
a lie and that Michael was just pretending with her, while he was interested in Lynn.
Though Michael confessed that he is guilty, but Brooke didn't believe it. Brooke thought
maybe he chose her since he confessed to her. Two days ago, Michael went to Atlanta. Brooke
opened the computer and saw an email of Lynn again which asked if he was free the next night.
Brooke got hurt that she has been lied to, so she wrote a letter for him that said all the mean
things, and confronted him about everything she knew. She removed her marriage ring and kept it
in the envelope to call her marriage off. Later, when she was in New York She received a call from
Michael, and he informed her that he was coming back home and not staying in Atlanta anymore.
She came to New York for work when she was sitting in the bar emphasizing what she did.
She cries and realizes that she loved Michael and that she can work things out between them. So,
she decides to go back home and destroy the evidence. She turned to grab her purse,
but it wasn't there, and the problem began.
Brooke and Nick walk to a restaurant, and she talks about Michael again. She informs nick
that sometimes she thinks if Michael loves Lynn more than her, or if her skin is softer than her.
Nick tries to make her understand to not think negatively. He tells her that Michael will call
her immediately if he finds the letter, and will beg for her forgiveness. He also encourages her
and makes her know that she was brave enough to confront the situation and not run away.
Suddenly, she excuses nick and asks the waiter about the way to the washroom.
She runs to the road and waves at the taxi driver. The taxi stops,
and she opens the door when suddenly Nick arrives and bangs the door close. She informs
him that she needs time to figure out, and she is going to stay in London for a while.
Nick reminds her that she does not have an ID and she wouldn't be able to do anything
alone. While she mocks him that she only met him four hours ago,
taking advice from a stranger. She mocks him about him quitting Med school for music,
and later quitting music because of Hannah. She also calls him the biggest loser in New York.
There were a couple of hours left till Brooke can get on a train. So, Nick takes her to the
hotel room to which Danny gave him access. They enter the room, and she apologizes to him for the
things she said to him earlier. She goes to take a shower and changes into a bathing robe. Later,
Nick freshens up too. He comes out of the bathroom, and Brooke looks and laughs at him.
He steps forward toward her and looks into her eyes. Brooke moves her head closer and kisses him.
They both kiss when suddenly she steps back and tells him that she can't do
it. He tells her that he has an idea. They both draw each other's faces on a
painting frame. While they sit together, she questions him that she thinks they
met at Grand Central for a reason. She thinks that they were meant to find each
other. She confesses that it was her worst night but also the best at the same time.
Nick tells her the secret about why he remained passionate about music over the
years after Hannah left him. He wanted her to realize that she wants to try again for
him. While Brooke shares that she loves Michael and a part of her feels that she
wants to go back and fix everything, as she does not want to regret it later.
The next morning, they go to the train station. When Brooke is going away, he plays a little game
of time machine. He picks up the cell phone and pretends to be the future nick calling the nick
who is in the past. He advises himself that he is going to meet somebody whom he needs more
than she needs him. He advises himself not to ruin what they have by confessing his feelings
to her. Just kiss her and tell her goodbye. He expresses his feelings in front of Brooke.
Nick moves closer to Brooke and passionately kisses her. She goes away and nick leaves the
station. Brooke is sitting on the train when she pulls out a room service card
which she and Nick filled it together. She turns over the card and smiles.