Revised story.

Premise:
Love comes when you least expect it

Scene 1
Open with old man on a railway platform. He looks small and frail but wise, against the big train and dark station.
He places his suitcase and sits. The tag on the suitcase shows the name R Newman
He sits and smiles as he remembers a happy time in his life, a similar journey he took many years ago when he was a much younger man.

Scene 2
(as the old man smiles , the camera moves towards his eyes, really close.
As he blinks - we transition to the past, maybe in B&W)
The man is now talking with a beautiful girl, Marie, the girl who will turn out to be the love of his life. The conversation is about love, the future and how love can happen when you least expect it.

Scene 3
We now cut back to now. (overlap sound of now with the old conversation)
A young man is now seated reading a book and a woman enters the carriage. She is sad (maybe upset). She arranges her belongings and sits quietly. (She might have a book by the same author within her possessions)

The old man watches her, he senses she is upset. As the old man gets up to leave, he pauses, smiles and then kisses her hand. She obviously stunned.
He then makes his way to the doors of the train; meanwhile the two passengers then begin to talk about what just happened. This is the start of their relationship.

We then see a close up of the doors opening, to see an old woman, Marie, waiting for him on the platform.


Influences:
Titanic, Amelie, before sunset/sunrise.

Soundtrack
Marie by Randy Newman