

Daniel is heartbroken that she has kept this news of her undocumented status from him and permitted their romance to progress despite her circumstances.

Devastated by the news, Natasha reveals to Daniel that she may be deported to Jamaica the next day. At the appointment, Natasha is told by the receptionist that her new immigration lawyer was in an accident and will not be in the office until later in the day. Daniel postpones his interview for later in the day, so he can walk Natasha all the way to her appointment with Attorney Fitzgerald and spend time with her, believing that they are fated to be together. In the process, they grow close and intimate. Throughout their day together, Natasha and Daniel take turns asking each other questions from the experiment and learning about the other person’s life. Natasha agrees to participate in this experiment with Daniel. Psychologist Arthur Aron’s love experiment concludes that two strangers are bound to fall in love after they ask each other a predetermined set of thirty-six questions and stare into the other person’s eyes. Daniel challenges her to participate with him in a love experiment he read about in The New York Times. During lunch, Natasha insists that love must be determined scientifically. When he rescues Natasha from getting hit by a speeding car, she agrees to have lunch with him, in a show of gratitude. While Daniel pursues Natasha romantically at first, Natasha’s pragmaticism conflicts with Daniel’s free-spirited ideals about life. Through a series of random events, Daniel encounters Natasha while she is on her way across town to an appointment with another immigration lawyer, Jeremy Fitzgerald. However, he has little interest in this career path, as his true passion lies in writing poetry. Meanwhile, Daniel is about to head to an interview with a Yale alum to fulfill his parents’ wishes for him to become a premedical student and eventual doctor. While her family has resigned themselves to their fate, Natasha makes her way to an appointment with their immigration lawyer in the hope of reversing their deportation.
