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  • 6/26/2025
💞 The After movie series, based on the bestselling novels by Anna Todd, explores the tumultuous and passionate relationship between Tessa Young and Hardin Scott. From sweet beginnings to fiery fights and emotional breakdowns, this series has captured the hearts of millions around the world.

🔥 In this video, we break down the entire saga — from After (2019) to After Everything (2023) — covering major plot points, character arcs, and the evolution of their romance. Whether you’re new to the series or reliving the heartbreak, this is your one-stop breakdown.

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🎥 Movies in the Series:
After (2019)

After We Collided (2020)

After We Fell (2021)

After Ever Happy (2022)

After Everything (2023)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Main Cast & Characters:
Josephine Langford as Tessa Young

Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Hardin Scott

Dylan Sprouse as Trevor (After We Collided)

Louise Lombard as Trish Daniels

Chance Perdomo as Landon

Arielle Kebbel as Kimberly

Carter Jenkins as Robert

Kiana Madeira as Nora

Stephen Moyer as Christian Vance

Rob Estes as Ken Scott

Director(s): Jenny Gage, Roger Kumble, Castille Landon
Based on: "After" novel series by Anna Todd
Genre: Romance / Drama
Platform: Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, and others
Language: English

🧠 Plot Summary:
Tessa Young is a focused and ambitious college student whose life takes a turn when she meets Hardin Scott, a brooding, mysterious bad boy. Their intense attraction leads to a passionate but toxic relationship filled with secrets, betrayals, make-ups, and breakups.

Across the five films, we witness the couple’s emotional growth (and downfall), as they struggle with trust, trauma, forgiveness, and love. The series is known for its angst-filled romance, heated chemistry, and emotional drama.

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00:00This love story begins with a girl whose name is Tessa and it is her first day in a brand new
00:04college that is a bit far away. Her mother and boyfriend decide to drop her to her new college
00:09dorm. There she is introduced with two girls, whose names are Steph and next to her is Tristan.
00:16It is clear that these girls are very outgoing and very talkative. Her mother smells some weed
00:21and walks out of there, but Tessa follows her and asks her to not make a scene. She assures to trust
00:26her on this one as she promises her. Her mother is proud of her and wish her well before leaving the
00:32college. Tessa's boyfriend also leaves after giving her a cute kiss. Tessa arrives back in her room,
00:38where Steph asks if she freaked out her mother. She think her brother is cute, but she correct her
00:43by telling he is her boyfriend. Steph leaves right after. Next morning she wakes up and excitedly
00:49walks to her classroom, where she find a guy whose name is Landon. He is an English major as opposed
00:55to Tessa, whose major is Economics. She looks excited and enthusiastic for her classes. Back in
01:01her dorm, she comes back after taking a nice bath and finds a guy sitting inside the room,
01:06reading a book calmly. She was shocked to see him and ask him to leave, but he tells her to not
01:11flatten herself because he is not looking. Steph arrives there and confirms that it is her friend.
01:17Steph asks her to come with them at the party, but the guy is sure that she won't join.
01:21Before leaving he tells her the ending of the book she was reading called Great Gatsby,
01:26hence spoiling it. Next day, she was studying in the library, and again, sees the same guy.
01:32This makes her very uncomfortable, while both catches each other's eyes for a moment.
01:36Later on, she is approached by Steph and asked to go on a party that night. She insists on not going,
01:42but she decide to change things a bit. Tessa choose a dress to wear, seeing it Steph thinks it is a bit
01:48too formal. They are finally at the party, whereas everyone is drinking and having fun.
01:53Later Tessa is introduced to all Steph's friends. There they ask her to drink a little,
01:58at first she hesitates, but ends up drinking a shot right after a girl from the group talks
02:03rude about her. They decide to play a game of truth or dare. Tessa choose truth and she is being asked
02:09where was the craziest place she had romantic moment. She decide to pass the question and chooses dare
02:15instead. The bad guy from the group comes and asks if she want to do it, but she is done with
02:20the game and walks away. She call her boyfriend, but he kind of scold her for drinking and she ends
02:25the call. Later she walks into an empty storage room and looks at the books. She is again approached
02:31by the bad guy, who asks her what she was looking for. Tessa is worried if he is drunk, but he assures
02:37her that he does not drink, just like herself. He reveals to her that this is his room, while holding
02:42her hand. He asks if their dare is still on, they were almost about to kiss, but she leaves
02:48after saying she cannot do it. While she walks back to her room, she gets texts from her boyfriend
02:53Noah and at night before bed. Next day she joins the class and finds the same guy called Landon
02:59and sits with him. While it is revealed that the guy from the party was also a newcomer, whose name
03:04is Harden Scott. When the professor asks a question about a romance book. He thinks, love is just a
03:10transaction, everyone is hardwired to desire. Present the correct set of desirable traits, which
03:16can turn on and off. On the other hand, Tessa contradict him that the women rejected the man in the
03:22book, when treated poorly in old era which was just amazing. This goes on for a good minute and Harden
03:28meets her after the class and tell her that it was exciting and leaves. She start to complain to Landon
03:33that he is so arrogant. Right there she is surprised to hear that, Harden is related to Landon.
03:39His mother is dating Harden's father and they barely tolerate each other. At night, Steph is
03:45getting a tattoo and asked Tessa to get a tattoo as well. She reveals that Noah is the only one she
03:50ever dated and her mother thinks they they will marry one day. Before bed she sees Steph is having
03:56some romantic moments with her girl and she move away her face. Next day, she is getting a coffee and
04:01gets approached by Harden. He is looking to start over and be friends since Steph is their mutual friend.
04:07Harden wants to show a place to her but she wants to keep her distance. She was almost about to walk
04:13away but decide to go on with Harden. They go a few miles away in his car, a place that looks like
04:19a jungle. They walk a little further where Tessa's eye catches a big lake. He reveals that this is his
04:25favorite place and ask her to swim. He takes off his clothes and jumps into the water. He insists on
04:31getting into the water and offer her his t-shirt. He looks away while she wears it. He slowly takes
04:37her into the water and start enjoying. Tessa asks him about the person he loves the most, to which he
04:43reveals himself. He asks about her boyfriend and gets to know he is a high school student, who loves
04:48her. He makes her hold her breath and shows her a way of silence. Harden was looking at her like she
04:54was some kind of forbidden diamond he had found. She asks her that he wanted to be friend, but he explains
05:00they can never be and they start to kiss each other passionately. After, he again move away his
05:05eyes so that she can change, but Tessa instead touches him and they start to have romantic moments.
05:10Every touch she was experiencing was making her breathe faster. Later, together they go into a bar.
05:17Tessa asks him about his past life, but he decide to pass on the question. She asks why does he not
05:22believe in love because of the incident in class, but he tells her to not believe everything he says
05:27and makes Tessa laugh. Meanwhile, Steph and another friend of Harden comes and joins him,
05:32to which he starts to act a bit odd. Later, he reveals to Tessa that all of it was fun,
05:38but he does not date, even though Tessa was about to tell about them to his boyfriend.
05:42Harden looks a bit disappointed after she leaves. Back in her dorm, in the morning she finds Harden
05:48sitting next to her. But this was just a dream. Next day, she finds her boyfriend standing outside
05:54with flowers. She could not believe that he was there. Both Tessa and Noah joins a party at night,
06:01where Steph and her group decide to play the suck and blow game. When Tessa's turn comes,
06:06she does not participate, to which she the Noah acts a bit protective, while, Harden comes in the way
06:11and start to fight. Harden leaves right after. Later at night, Tessa was watching a movie with Noah,
06:17but is concerned about something. At night she gets a call from Landon and goes to meet her.
06:23She finds out that Harden and Landon had a fight and he mentioned her name too,
06:27so she might be able to help him. She gets to know that he is upset about his father getting
06:31married to Landon's mother, while, her mother lives in a dump back in London. He breaks the glass
06:37and Tessa gets injured trying to pick it up. He takes her to his room and apologize for how he
06:42treated her earlier. Harden explains that he is a mess, to which Tessa also thinks that she is also
06:48a mess. Seeing this they both start to have small romantic moment. One thing lead to another and she
06:54end up sleeping throughout the night in his room. She walks up to Noah, who is really worried about
06:59her. Right after he sees Harden standing there and figures out what is really going on. He leaves
07:05the spot right after. She walks back to her dorm devastated, while getting noticed by Molly.
07:10Tessa feels like she lost a best friend. What she was feeling could not be described in simple words.
07:17She was very sad throughout her classes and trying to talk to Noah. One day she sees Harden outside
07:23and they decide to talk. He did not expect to see her. She start to describe how her father left when
07:29she was just 10 year old. Her mother could not bear this pain, when she was taking care for her,
07:34Noah was there to help. Noah is her best friend, but he was is so much more, she reveals. One day,
07:41Harden makes Tessa stay before the library closes. He reads a book, while she is sitting in his lap.
07:48Security finds them and go after them, they laugh while running away. This was going to be a memorable
07:53moment for both of them. Their relation was getting noticed by their friends. Harden would not even wait
07:59for her class and come inside and call her beautiful. One day Tessa noticed Harden was
08:04writing something in the notebook. She wants to see it, but he teased her a lot. Not too long after,
08:10they start to have romantic moments. Suddenly, her mother opens the door and finds them in revealing
08:16position. This was enough to make her super angry. She start to accuse her roommate. She thinks,
08:22Tessa will ruin her life because of a boy. Tessa start to argue and tell her mother that she will live
08:28her life the way she wants to and not how she want to mold it. This makes her mother upset and
08:33emotional. Before leaving, she suggests that he will break her heart and also cut her off.
08:38She later talks to Landon about this situation, but he thinks Harden is complicated. He suggests
08:44her to be careful. Harden takes Tessa to a place, who belongs to a friend of his father's,
08:49who at the moment is residing in Italy. Harden suggests to live together in this place.
08:54Her mother cuts her off so Harden had to do something. They both move in into this place
09:00and start to live a happy relationship. They spend most of the time together, laugh and enjoy
09:05the small moments. Both go to many places together. Harden still cannot believe that she belongs to him
09:11now. He believe that he does not deserve her, while Tessa believes nothing will change the way she feel
09:16about him. They later go into wedding party of Harden and Landon's parents. Both meets with Landon's
09:23mother Karen and father. They are pleased to meet Tessa. Seeing his father with another women makes
09:29Harden really upset, to which Tessa tried to calm him. Harden's father start to give speech in front
09:34of all the people. Even though he is praising Harden, he tells Tessa that this is not the father
09:39who he grew up with. Even though he has changed, some things never change. He start to explain a
09:45scenario. One day at a pub, his father messes with the wrong guys. When they came back for the payback
09:51at his house, he could not stop them from doing something to his real mother. Later, they start
09:56to dance while looking each other into the eyes. They go inside a room, where Tessa decide to have
10:01a romantic moment. One day, Tessa is being looked with jealousy from Molly and later, she start to
10:07ask her about her boyfriend. She wants to know more about Harden, but Tessa does not reveal lots of
10:12things. Later, Molly texts on Harden's phone something that makes Tessa super suspicious of Harden.
10:18When she asks him about what he is hiding, he tell him to trust him and there is nothing to hide.
10:23She is anxious and want Harden to call. One of her friend texts her and tell her to meet at
10:28Videodrome and tell him about Harden. She sits in the car and find Jade there, who tells her that he
10:34might be at Blind Bob's. There she finds Tessa and her friends. She reveals that she had been living
10:40with Harden off campus. Molly reveals that something is going on, but not what she thinks. She shows her a
10:46video of the day when they first played Truth and Dare. Harden had been given a dare to make her fall
10:52in love with her. After this happens, he would just turn it off. She could not believe her eyes and she
10:58is totally shocked. He tells her that is not the truth, it was all before and his feeling were all
11:03true. She leaves not wasting any more time. At this moment, Tessa is feeling loneliest in the whole
11:10world. She goes back to her house and meets her mother, who she hugs. She does not want to reveal
11:16what really happened, but she was there to say that she was sorry. Tessa also express her love
11:21toward her and later walk away to meet Noah, who was wondering, why was she there? She explains that
11:27she never wanted to hurt him. He was fine with that and they start to laugh. Tessa goes back to the
11:32university and start to write an email, to change her major from economics to English. Meanwhile,
11:38Harden could not get over their separation and starts to cry imagining all the moments they
11:42spend together. Later, she gets an interview invitation regarding her internship in the
11:47Vance Publishing. Tessa was sitting in a lecture, where later she was given an envelope by the teacher.
11:53While she said Harden gave it to her and explains how this was more for Tessa than herself.
11:58Tessa sees that Harden was drawing her pictures in his notebook. She also reads a literature from
12:03Harden, where he explains, he read hundreds of novels and only thought love was just a
12:08fiction, until he found his Elizabeth Bennett. He never thought he could be consumed totally by
12:13her, hold her hands, and where she will lead him out of the darkness. He lastly asked for forgiveness.
12:19She once asked who he loved most in the world. He reveals that it is Tessa and the movie ends here.
12:25Tessa has asked her, right? So she asked why, so these books aren't telling people who left the no other thing.
12:30She154
12:32But I'm returning to her for the first year's mother, the only advice that he wanted to be a
12:42equipment that she knew was used strictly to come. I have my doubts about that.
12:46She had to do soまた her workouts, I don't know whether she did that except her form and
12:49she wasn'tolor.

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