The concept is as high as an elephant’s eye. Two students at the University of Edinburgh have a post-finals fling on July 15, 1988 - “one really nice night together” which neither wants nor expects, at that point, to lead to anything more permanent (though a clever coda will revise our perception of events).
One Day revisits Emma and Dexter on this day, St Swithin’s Day, over the next 20 years, tracing their lives sometimes in parallel but mostly at moments of charged intersection, when what is obvious to us becomes obvious to them, too: that they are happier, funnier, better people when they are together than when they are apart; that they are meant to be together; that they are in love. As it