She's invited to stay for dinner by one of the women but she says she needs to get back to Victor, who will be missing her. Sophie is so intrigued and fascinated that she stays for the day learning about them. They take down the letters each day and write back offering advice and comfort. Sophie is curious so she follows the woman to a house several doors down and discovers the office of a group of women known as the Secretaries of Juliet. Sophie stays to write and spots a woman taking down all of the letters and putting them into a basket, taking them away with her. Sophie stops one girl who's sobbing and asks if shes ok, and the girl, speaking only Italian, makes it clear that her heart has been broken. There are many people there, especially young women and girls writing letters which they pin on the wall for Juliet. It's the alley below the balcony made famous by William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, and it's known as Juliet's balcony. We later see Sophie wandering through the streets of Verona by herself and she stumbles upon a tiny alleyway where a crowd of people stand. He claims its a win-win situation but Sophie isn't sure. He makes her feel guilty by saying that he'll do what she wants, even though it's obvious that it's not what he wants, and she relents and offers to go sightseeing alone while he goes onto see the truffles. Sophie says she doesn't want to go, and wants to do some sightseeing with him, but Victor really only cares about the food. She's visibly getting more and more annoyed and finally snaps a little when Victor says that they are now ready to go on to the forest 125 kilometers away to see his truffle supplier. Victor speaks fluent Italian and Sophie doesn't, so she's left out of most of the conversations. Victor has been called by his manager, who has arranged for him to meet with some of their suppliers while he's there, and they spend the first day traipsing around the countryside meeting with suppliers at the wineries and in the cheese shops. They are both so excited to be there but for different reasons. They fly to Italy and stay at a hotel in Verona, where their room has a small balcony. She's annoyed because they're leaving for Italy in 12 hours, but he sweeps her off her feet and makes her smile and forgive him. She heads to the restaurant to find Victor unhappy because she can't write like she wants to, and finds that instead of packing, he's in the kitchen reinventing the noodle. Sophie and her fiancé Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) are leaving on a pre-honeymoon trip to Verona, Italy, because he will be opening up a restaurant in a few weeks and there will be no time to go after the wedding. He then asks her about the trip she is going on. She asks him if she can start to submit some stories to him as she really wants to write, but he says she's such a good fact checker that there is no need to want more. She meets with her boss at the New Yorker who asks her to be very certain that the information is correct, which she is, and he compliments her on her work. As she's in Times Square, where the picture was taken, she finds the right person who can verify her question. In her hand she has a picture of the famous kiss that took place between a sailor and a nurse, and she's trying to confirm if it was staged or spontaneous. The movie begins with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) walking through downtown New York while on the phone, trying to track down several individuals to see where they were on the day they found out WWII was over.
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