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 memories of a young couple in love through various traditional scenes - on a bridge, playing in a park, kissing, and sharing a milkshake while laughing together in a restaurant in the 1960s. However, the voiceover then mentions that losing her partner wasn't her plan, introducing a negative element that subverts expectations of a typical romantic genre resolution.