
At Frankie's funeral, she gives Riley the ring she promised to keep safe for him. While Luke is in the hospital, he tells Cassie that Frankie was killed in action. Cassie tries to contact Luke's brother but accidentally contacts his father, angering Luke, as his father is a retired military police officer who would turn them in if he found out about their arrangement. One night while performing, she receives a call that Luke has been severely injured by an IED explosion and will be coming home to recover. Luke asks Cassie if he is her muse, and Cassie concedes he may be. She performs it for them, uplifting their spirits after a rough day. She tells him that she wrote a song, "Come Back Home," for the Marines. Cassie and Luke start sending emails and video calls to one another to keep up the ruse. Before he gets on the bus to leave, Luke gives Cassie contact information for his brother as she is now his next of kin. The next morning, the Marines are deployed. Cassie comforts him and they share an intimate night together. That night, he admits he is scared of both the marriage and Iraq. Cassie argues with one of them over a toast about hunting down Arabs, resulting in an argument with Luke, but to keep up appearances they pretend to make amends. After, the newlyweds go to the bar with Frankie and Luke's fellow marines. Their plan is that after a year, they will file for divorce.įrankie, the witness at the wedding, gives Cassie the ring he plans to marry Riley with, asking her to keep it safe. They agree to marry before Luke deploys and share the extra pay. Although Luke overhears and advises against a fraudulent marriage, he realizes both their financial difficulties could be solved by getting married as Luke will make more money and Cassie will have access to military spouse healthcare. Frankie explains he plans to marry his sweetheart Riley. Estranged from his retired marine dad, he asks his brother for help, but his brother declines.Ĭassie proposes to Frankie, a childhood friend and Luke's bunkmate, to benefit from the health insurance granted to military spouses. Luke has his own set of difficulties: he became an addict after his mom's death, and although two years clean, he still owes $15,000 to his dealer, Johnno.

One of them, Luke Morrow, flirts with Cassie, but she turns him down. One night, she serves a group of Marines who are soon to be deployed to Iraq.

Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes six months earlier, she struggles to afford insulin and works multiple jobs to try and make ends meet. Plot Ĭassie Salazar is a waitress/bartender and performs with her band, The Loyal, at a bar in America. The production for the film started soon after that, with most of the scenes for the film shot in locations around Riverside and San Diego, California. The rights for the film were originally owned by Alloy Entertainment, but Netflix bought the rights from them in August 2021. Its story follows an aspiring singer-songwriter named Cassie and a Marine named Luke, who agree to get married in order to receive military benefits and pay their debts. It stars Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine.

It is based upon the novel of the same name by Tess Wakefield. Purple Hearts is a 2022 American musical romance film created for Netflix and directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum.
