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...physical beauty of the area is made vivid for the audience through the eyes of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a nomadic National Geographic photographer who arrives in Winterset, Iowa with the intention of "making pictures" of the covered bridges in the area. On the way to the last bridge, he finds himself lost, and stops for directions at the Johnson family farm...
Johnson' husband and teenage children Michael and Carolyn are conveniently away for a week at the Illinois state fair and she is relaxing with a glass of iced tea after a day of chores. Unable to five Kincaid clear directions through the unmarked roads of Winterset, she accompanies him to the bridge...
...this landscape, the two fall immediately and passionately in love. They both realize that they have become complete in each other, and yet face the most difficult choices of their lives as the week comes to a close. Ultimately, Kincaid continues on his journeys around the world and Francesca returns to her marriage. They never speak again...
...until they are puzzled by the request in their mother's estate that her ashes be thrown off one the bridges that they even learn of the events of that week. It is though their reading of Francesca's journals and their discovery of some of kincaid's photographic treasures in the house that they begin to see their mother as a very different woman...
However, this decision is not less plausible than the arrival of Robert kincaid in town on the only week in fifteen years that her whole family decides to go out of town. Suspending this initial disbelief, the whole story is left to unfold like a fairy tale...