Although Anna loses Jamie, she honors his legacy by embarking on the "grand tour" by herself and taking over his role as a poetry professor at Oxford University. The final scene of the film shows Anna bringing a pound cake to her first class — the same thing Jamie did when he was a professor and she was his student.

The film, based on Julia Whelan's novel of the same name, follows Anna, a high-achieving American who delays a thriving career to study poetry at Oxford.