All The Days Before Tomorrow (2007) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Alison calls Wes because she's about to leave Los Angeles to join her boyfriend Kai in Tokyo and wants to spend one last evening together. She reaches out late at night, almost midnight, not to rekindle romance but to reconnect and re-anchor their deep, long-standing platonic bond before she moves away. The call represents a final moment to honor what they've built over years of friendship.

Foreshadowing: The opening image showing Alison watching light on window drapes mirrors a past road trip moment, signaling that memory and present are braided from the start.

• Alison
• Wes
• Tokyo
• phone call
• departure

Wes and Alison choose not to pursue romance because Alison is committed to her relationship with Kai. During their Utah summer memories, Alison explicitly phones Kai to reaffirm her love for him, showing where her commitment lies. Though they share a brief charged kiss during a drunken strip poker moment, both feel immediate guilt and let it dissolve. Their bond is portrayed as a deep platonic connection that transcends romance, something the film suggests is rarer and more valuable than possession.

Foreshadowing: The strip poker kiss is preceded by Alison calling Kai to reaffirm her love, making the guilt and dissolution inevitable.

• Wes
• Alison
• relationship
• Kai
• romance
• breakup

The guardian figure played by Richard Roundtree appears in Wes's monochrome dream sequences as a mentor-like presence guiding him through questions about meaning, time, and the cosmic ties binding his life to Alison's. The dream world is stark and luminous, contrasting with the warmth of human scenes. This ethereal adviser helps Wes confront the nature of his longing and understand that some relationships survive not by rewriting reality but by persevering in memory and shared experience.

Foreshadowing: The dream sequences begin early in the film, establishing the metaphysical layer that frames Wes's entire journey of understanding his connection to Alison.

• dream
• guardian
• doctor
• subconscious
• Wes
• metaphor

During a summer memory when Wes and Alison were drinking together, a game of strip poker leads to a brief, charged kiss between them. The moment is filled with possibility, but both immediately feel guilt and let it dissolve before it can become anything more. The next morning, Alison chooses to return home alone to Kai, signaling the boundaries they both recognize exist in their relationship.

Foreshadowing: Earlier in the same memory, Alison phones Kai to reaffirm her love, making the kiss's aftermath inevitable.

• strip poker
• kiss
• guilt
• summer
• memory

The Christmas party scene stands apart from the other timelines, present day and summer memories, giving it an ambiguous, out-of-sync quality. It serves to expand the mosaic of moments that have shaped Wes and Alison, introducing other people in their lives. The unusual placement reinforces the film's non-linear, memoir-like structure and suggests their bond exists within a larger tapestry of experiences, even when those moments don't directly involve each other.

Foreshadowing: The scene appears without clear chronological context, fitting the film's refusal to present time as a straight line.

• Christmas party
• ambiguity
• timeline
• mosaic

The snowfall in Los Angeles delays flights, granting Alison and Wes a rare extension of time together. This improbable event symbolizes the film's theme that time is malleable and connection can endure beyond conventional constraints. Rather than rushing into separation, they linger in the warmth of their shared history, savoring the fragile possibility of what lies ahead. The ending is hopeful, not a neat resolution, but a suggestion that their bond persists.

Foreshadowing: The entire film has built toward this convergence of timelines, with memory and present beginning to align in a gentle, hopeful alignment.

• snow
• ending
• hope
• time
• delayed flight

The film refuses a straight timeline to reflect how memory actually works and to emphasize that Wes and Alison's connection exists on a plane where time does not strictly matter. By weaving present-day Los Angeles, Utah-desert road trip memories, and ethereal dream sequences, the movie crafts a mosaic where time is flexible but longing remains steadfast. The non-linear structure mirrors the opening image of braided time, memory and present inseparably connected from the start.

Foreshadowing: The very first image shows Alison watching window drapes that mirror a past moment, establishing the braided time concept immediately.

• non-linear
• timeline
• memory
• structure
• flashback

The Utah desert road trip represents a pivotal summer when Wes and Alison spent time together while Kai was away at a conference. They danced at a bar, cruised through the desert, and stayed in separate hotel beds, the intimacy of companionship more significant than romance. This memory shows the natural ease of their friendship and how their bond deepened without crossing into romance. It became one of their strongest shared memories that Wes holds onto in the present.

Foreshadowing: The opening image directly references this Utah moment by mirroring the light on window drapes from that road trip.

• Utah
• road trip
• summer
• memory
• Wes
• Alison

Alison chooses Kai because she genuinely loves him and is committed to building a life with him in Tokyo. Throughout the film, she repeatedly affirms her love for Kai, even during the summer memory, she phones him to reaffirm their relationship. While her connection with Wes is profound and deep, she sees it as a different kind of bond, one that doesn't require romance to be meaningful. Her choice reflects the film's theme that some connections survive not by possession but by allowing them to nourish the people who share them.

Foreshadowing: The phone call to Kai during the Utah trip foreshadows her ongoing commitment despite her closeness with Wes.

• Alison
• Kai
• Tokyo
• commitment
• choice

Wes and Alison share a deep, purely platonic bond that the film portrays as rarer and more valuable than romantic love. They enjoy intimate but non-sexual closeness, long conversations, painting each other's fingernails, sharing a bed as friends who know each other's cores. The film presents this as a conscious choice: honoring a connection that doesn't fit conventional romance while refusing to sever what they've built. Their relationship exists on a metaphysical plane where time doesn't matter and longing persists without possession.

Foreshadowing: The guardian figure in the dream world helps Wes understand that some bonds survive by persisting in memory rather than in physical reality.

• friendship
• platonic
• connection
• intimacy
• bond