Movie Review: Love Finds You in Valentine

Plot

A young woman inherits a ranch just before taking the bar exam to become a lawyer.

Since she doesn’t know anything about running it, she would normally sell it and take the money.

However, before selling it, she has to travel from LA where she lives to the actual location of the ranch, and do the sale in person.

This is what her late father actually wanted her to do.

As she gets there, she encounters problems that she didn’t expect, and start suspecting that things are not what they look like financial-wise.

In the meantime, and through various events and meetings with different local people, she gradually begins to build a connection with the past.

Her own past is shared between two families, her father’s and her mother’s, and goes back to when a feud between the two families was sparked by two ancestors falling in love for the same woman.

This story of animosity continues, and the young woman finds foes that seem to either dislike her, like her maternal grandfather, or try to financially defraud her, like a cousin from her father’s side.

Hopefully for her, she also meets people who are willing to help and support her, like the local pastor, who is a maternal cousin of hers, or the foster mother of the foreman who now runs the ranch.

After overcoming the initial hostile reception, and going through many ups and downs, her relationship with the latter improves slowly but steadily.

As he also struggles with demons from his past, they realize that they belong to each other and share many things as persons, in spite of coming from very different worlds and backgrounds.

In the end, love triumphs once again, building bridges between people, and helping them develop and improve as individuals.