The film begins with a monologue by the heroine Haze, which is full of hopelessness for life. It turns out that she has thyroid cancer, and she carries a heavy oxygen bottle every day. She doesn't want to go out, so she stays in her room and reads a thick book.
Mother thought she was depressed and advised her to communicate more with the cancer support group and make some friends. But hazel doesn't want to go. She thinks it is meaningless to communicate with people who are dying.
Faced with the impermanence of life, people are always at a loss. What they can do is to reduce the harm to themselves and their loved ones. Just like hazelnuts, they don't want to see flowers wither, and they don't want their loved ones to face the sadness of flowers withering. Hazel finally joined a support group for her parents, where she met the most important person in her short life.
The man Augustus is a patient with bone cancer, because treatment requires amputation of a leg. At the request of doctors and parents, hazel joined the Cancer Patients Association, where she met Auguste who was smoking a cigarette but never lit it.
Two people with different personalities have an intersection because of a terminal illness. They share their hobbies, get to know each other's parents and friends, and play tricks on their ex-girlfriend who broke up with issiac. She is also a patient of a mutual aid association because of illness.
But at this time, hazel's illness worsened, and she began to be afraid. She was afraid of losing Augustus, and even more afraid of losing her, so she began to alienate him and deliberately pushed Augustus away.
But Augustus knew hazel well enough and loved hazel well enough. His consolation and confession to hazel touched hazel's heart. Life is fragile. We should cherish the love in our short life and enjoy the imperfect perfection in life.
Augustus used his wish in the "Magic Lamp Foundation" to help hazel realize his wish and went to Amsterdam to meet a writer. Although things were not as perfect as they thought, they still had a wonderful time in a foreign country-they traveled together, dated, ate and kissed by the lake. Augustus confessed to hazel many times, but hazel could never liberate himself.
Accompanied by the writer's assistant, they visited the Anne Memorial Hall where Het Achterhuis was shown. In the war, Anne wrote words of encouragement: "At this moment, I can't imagine the pain, but I think of the beauty that still exists and try to find my happiness."
In Amsterdam, hazel finally found her happiness.
Eighty-five percent of Augustus' bone cancer can be cured, but the remaining 15% makes his body light up like a Christmas tree, and cancer cells spread all over his body.
After returning home, Augustus began to receive chemotherapy and sat in a wheelchair. When his death approached, Augustus admitted his fear. He is afraid of being forgotten. He wanted to make great achievements and make the world remember him, but hazel told him angrily, "I will always remember you. Isn't that enough? "
Augustus held his own funeral in advance at the end of his life, and he wanted to hear hazel's memorial service for him. Hazel stood in front of the church auditorium and opened the prepared memorial service. She told Augustus that some infinity was bigger than others.
In the long river of life, we are really insignificant, but between us and the people we love, we can achieve relative infinity, and our love and friendship can last forever. We don't necessarily need to fight for a place in the long river of life, but we can realize the infinity of fate in our short self-life.
After getting along, falling in love and dying, the two protagonists in the film overcame their fears.
Life here, augustus may have understood, stay in the world, sometimes it is better to be loved by a person, remember.
Hazel, perhaps having experienced love and death, also understood his parents' feelings for himself.
We all came into this world after suffering from love. When we die, we learn to bring pain to the people around us, but this pain should be felt and bearable.
Enjoy life, enjoy perfection in imperfection.