on a journey from which there is no turning back. Jake is optimistic. He is convinced that they will manage to conceive before the months are up. Elena is uplifted by Jake's optimism and buys into the idea that they will manage to have a baby naturally. The months go by. Sex becomes strategically timed. It leads to nothing but disappointment and IVF starts to feel inevitable. Elena and Jake try to face it with optimism. They put it to the back of their minds that the odds of IVF resulting in a pregnancy are low. They embrace the injections and appointments and interventions. It is an opportunity to have a baby. It will be worth it. But it fails. They both begin to privately doubt the possibility of ever having a family. They take out their disappointment on each other. Elena has a growing paranoia that Jake will leave her if she doesn't give him a child. A second round of IVF fails. An explosive argument leads to Elena telling Jake to leave. Jake tells Elena if he goes he will never come back. After time apart, Elena attends her best friends wedding and when she returns home that evening she gathers Jake's remaining belongings and texts him suggesting they meet so she can deliver them to him. They meet in a cafe and Elena breaks down. She is still profoundly in love with him and she tells him he was right when he said that they already were a family and that what they had together was too special to lose. Jake walks out abruptly leaving Elena in tears. He goes to stay with his dad and talks to him about Elena. He tells his dad that he doesn't know what to do, he and Elena had a perfect relationship just like his dad and mum did and he doesn't know how to get that back. His dad explains to Jake that perfection is just an illusion. He asks Jake if he still loves Elena and Jake nods. He then asks him what he will do if they never have children together; Jake covers his face with his hands. In the penultimate scene Jake sits alone, thoughtful. In the final scene, we see Elena walking through the park on an Autumnal afternoon. She eventually comes to Jake who stands waiting for her. They walk towards and embrace each