A teenager boy who tries to set his father happening vis--vis a date after the death of his mom. He calls into a radio station to chat approximately his fathers loneliness which soon leads the father into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a tab not quite the boy and his father. Yet Annie ends occurring compound to greater than just a financial checking account in this popular loving comedy.
Chicago architect Sam Baldwin loses his wife Maggie to cancer. He and his eight-year-old son Jonah begin following anew in Seattle, Washington, but Sam continues to grieve. A year and a half well ahead, harshly speaking speaking Christmas Eve 1992, Jonahwho wants his father to locate a adding going on wifecalls in to a radio chat take effect. Jonah persuades a reluctant Sam to go on the order of the space to chat about how much he misses Maggie. Hundreds of women from in tote going on to the country who hear the program and are touched by the version write to Sam. One of the spectators is Annie Reed, a Baltimore Sun reporter. She is engaged to amiable, adequate Walter but feels there is something missing from their agreeable association, feeling no "illusion". After watching the film An Affair to Remember, Annie impulsively writes a letter suggesting that Sam meet her upon summit of the Empire State Building upon Valentine's Day. She does not mean to mail it, but her friend and editor Becky does it for her and agrees to send Annie to Seattle to "see into do something a report upon those radio shows."