Jamie's condition grows worse and she gets sent to the hospital. One by one, his friends become aware of the tragedy looming for Jamie and Landon. Landon asks for his father's help in curing her, but the doctors all say there is no cure.
On another date, Landon asks Jamie what her plans for the future are, she confesses she isn't making any because she has leukemia and hasn't been responding to treatment. Jamie tells Landon about how she experiences belief and how it's like the wind. On their first date, Landon helps Jamie to fulfill her list of things she wants to achieve in life, such as being in two places at once, and getting a tattoo she also hopes to read all of the hundred great American books recommended by her English teacher. Landon asks her father if he can date his daughter. Landon asks Jamie on a date soon after, but Jamie says her father doesn't allow her to date. Jamie avoids Landon after the play, and it is not until a cruel prank is played on Jamie by Landon's friends that she warms up to him again. When Jamie finishes, Landon kisses Jamie (not part of the play). Onstage at the peak of the ending to the play, Jamie sings a song. On the opening night of the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the entire audience with her beauty and her voice. They get to know each other and a spark of affection arises between them. Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her house after school. He asks Jamie, who is also in the play, for help, but on one condition: Jamie warns Landon not to fall in love with her. Landon has trouble learning his lines for the school play. She makes no attempt to wear make-up or otherwise improve her looks or attract attention to herself. Since he's one of the in-crowd, he has seldom paid any attention to Jamie who wears modest dresses all the time and owns only one sweater. The head of the school gives Landon the choice of being expelled from school or atoning for his actions by tutoring fellow students and participating in the class play.ĭuring these functions, he notices Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), a girl he has known since kindergarten and who has attended many of the same classes as him, and is also the local minister's daughter. The popular, rebellious teenager Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion from school after he and his friends leave evidence of underage drinking on the school grounds and cause a student to suffer serious injuries from a prank they pulled on him.