It Ends With Us

Lily Bloom is meant to deliver a eulogy at her father Andrew's funeral. From the podium, she announces that she will list five of her favorite things about him. After standing in silence for several seconds, she walks off. Back home in Boston, she meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. They flirt until he is called away for emergency surgery. While renovating the building she bought to start her flower shop, Lily meets Allysa and hires her, then later learns she is Ryle's sister. At Allysa's birthday party, Ryle tells Lily that he is infatuated with her. They kiss, but she declines to sleep with him, saying that he is only interested in casual sex, whereas she wants a relationship. Lily spends the night at Ryle's apartment and accepts his invitation to date him the next morning. Ryle persuades her to introduce him to her mother Jenny at a new restaurant called Root. There, Lily discovers that the owner and head chef is her high school boyfriend, Atlas Corrigan. Flashbacks reveal that Andrew had physically abused Jenny, and that Lily had found Atlas living in an empty house next door after he had run away from his mother's abusive boyfriend. They fell in love, and upon finding them in bed together, Andrew severely beat Atlas. The teen later joined the Marines. One morning, Ryle burns his hand while cooking breakfast for Lily. When she tries to help, he slaps her, but he immediately apologizes, insisting that it was an accident. While Ryle, Lily, Allysa and her husband Marshall are dining at Root, Atlas notices Lily's bruised eye and Ryle's bandaged hand. He confronts Lily, imploring her to leave Ryle. When Ryle finds them together, he assumes the worst and a physical altercation breaks out, culminating in Atlas ejecting him. Atlas visits Lily's shop, gives her his phone number and tells her to call him if she ever needs to. Lily confides in Ryle that her father abused her mother. While visiting Allysa and Marshall in the hospital after the birth of their daughter, Lily accepts Ryle's proposal of marriage. Soon after, they elope. Ryle later finds Atlas's phone number hidden in Lily's phone case. During an ensuing argument, he pushes Lily down the stairs. Ryle later claims that she fell and that he tried to catch her. Atlas is interviewed by a local magazine, telling them that he named his restaurant in Lily's honor. In a jealous rage, Ryle tries to rape Lily. She escapes and seeks out Atlas, who takes her to a hospital, where she discovers that she is pregnant. Lily stays with Atlas for a few days, during which time he reveals that he had planned to kill himself on the night she found him, but she had inspired him to carry on living. When Lily opens up to Allysa about Ryle's treatment of her, Allysa reveals that, as a small child, Ryle had accidentally shot and killed their brother Emerson. This led to unresolved trauma manifesting as uncontrollable bouts of rage. Allysa admits that, as Ryle's sister, she hopes Lily can forgive him, but as her best friend, she insists that she leave him. Lily moves out, but Ryle implores her to return, promising to seek help and stop the abuse. Lily gives birth to a daughter, whom they name Emerson. She tells Ryle that she wants a divorce. Although he initially resists, he eventually agrees when she asks him how he would react if their daughter were to be abused by a partner. Lily hopes that she has broken the cycle of abuse in her family and tells her daughter, 'It ends with us.' Months later, Lily and Jenny take Emerson to visit Andrew's grave, where Lily leaves the blank eulogy on his headstone. She bumps into Atlas at the farmers' market. Lily tells him that she is no longer with Ryle, and they smile at each other.

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