Me Before You

In the fictional English town of Stokebridge, Louisa "Lou" Clark is hired as a caretaker for Will Traynor, a once successful banker and active sportsman now tetraplegic after being hit by a motorcycle two years previously. Will's mother hopes Lou will lift Will's depressed and cynical spirits. Will is initially cold towards Lou. Will's ex-girlfriend Alicia visits and reveals that she is going to marry Will's former best friend Rupert. Lou perseveres with Will, and, as the two grow close, she learns he is cultured and worldly, in contrast to her simple life spent with her parents and her boyfriend Patrick. Overhearing an argument between Will's parents, Lou learns that, in six months' time, he will travel to Dignitas in Switzerland for assisted suicide. Lou takes it upon herself to change his mind by organizing trips and adventures to show him that life is still worth living. Patrick's jealousy grows until he and Lou split up. Will asks Lou to accompany him to Alicia's wedding. They start to fall in love. During a luxurious trip to Mauritius, Will tells Lou he still intends to die, saying he wants her to live a full life instead of "half a life" with him. Heartbroken, Lou quits as Will's caregiver and refuses contact with him. Lou's father convinces her to visit Will, but she finds he has already left for Switzerland. She follows him there to be with him in his final moments. A few weeks after Will's death, sitting at his favourite café in Paris, Lou reads a letter he left for her. In it, he says he has left her enough money to follow her dreams and encourages her to live abundantly.

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