The film opening establishes a romantic genre through a voiceover and music. It uses slow zooms and fades between photographs in a scrapbook to show traditional representations of a young couple in love through different memories - including the couple on a bridge with water sounds, play fighting in a park laughing, kissing brightly lit, and sharing a milkshake in a 1960s restaurant. The voiceover then takes a modern, negative turn by saying losing her partner wasn't her plan, changing the audience's expectations for the romantic genre.