The Notebook Ending Explained: Alternate Streaming Version, Noah & Ally’s Fate

Though not in the traditional sense, The Notebook ending saw Allie and Noah get their happily ever after—though Netflix’s alternate ending tells a slightly different story. The romance film based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks follows a married couple, one of whom must stay in a facility because of her dementia. In the hopes of helping his wife remember who she is, Noah chooses to live in the facility with her and reads to her daily from the titular notebook the pair had created together before Allie’s dementia took hold. The doctors tell him that the efforts to restore her memory were futile, but Noah’s steadfast devotion to his wife meant he never gave up.