Résumé : She finds there a bottle containing a message that will upset her life. This bottle was thrown into the sea, by the currents, by Garrett, a man who cannot resign himself to the disappearance of the woman of his life and it is to her that he destines this love letter whose reading moves Theresa so deeply. She has only one idea left in mind, to start searching, identify, discover the face of the author of this letter... Message in a Bottle is Nicholas Sparks' second novel. The film adaptation was directed by Luis Mandoki with Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn and Paul Newman in the lead roles. Theresa, a young journalist and divorced mother, walks on the beach in Cape Cod.