The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

The movie begins with Amelie’s history, a narrator extolling the likes and dislikes of her parents and setting the stage of Amelie’s childhood, filmed in black and white. As soon as she turns 18, Amelie moves to Paris and works as a waitress. She visits her father every weekend and leads a fairly boring existence, living in an apartment building with other misfits. Amelie’s life changes the day Princess Diana died. She discovers a cubbyhole in her apartment with a small box of treasures and decides to find the owner and return the box to him anonymously. The man’s life changes when he receives his box back and Amelie embarks upon her new vocation of influencing lives.