The video opens with a little girl (played by Julia Putnam) who has been staying at the Hotel del Coronado at the shore over the summer and a little boy (played by Richard Hicks) who appears to live in the hotel year round; both children seem to be in early elementary school.

The next scene skips ahead in time to when the girl, now a woman in her twenties (played by actress Olivia Wilde - of House M.D.

The boy, now a man (played by Nick Steele), still seems to be living/working at the hotel, and the two lovers meet on the porch of the inn and are holding hands.

The next scene of this love sequence shows the woman on a cliff overlooking the beach and the man approaches, after words are spoken that cannot be heard because of the music in the song, the lovers begin kissing.

The video has been likened to the classic novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, since aspects of the relationship between the characters of Estella and Pip may be similar to those portrayed between the girl and boy.