In an attempt to liberate her father's emotions, she steals his beloved garden gnome and gets Philomene to send him Polaroids from the gnome's round-the-world trip. She steers Joseph into passion with Georgette the cigarette-girl and so frees Gina from his unwelcome jealousy. So moved is she by his joy that she starts looking for other lives to fix. Amélie returns the box anonymously to its middle-aged owner, Bretodeau, and watches from a distance as his life is transformed by its magical discovery. Finally, her path crosses with Dufayel, who puts her on the right track to find her quarry and, in the process, reveals himself to be a domestic philosopher and eccentric painter - he has been making a scrupulous copy of a Renoir once a year for twenty years. Her researches bring her into contact with the concierge of her building, who longs to receive a letter from her errant (and, unfortunately, dead) husband, and with the cruel grocer Collignon, who treats his innocent employee Lucien appallingly. Seized with excitement, she makes it her mission to find the owner. One day, Amélie discovers an old box of childhood treasures in her apartment.

Amélie's life is fairly happy, but it's narrow. She works in a café called Les Deux Moulins, where her boss Suzanne dreams of her past life in the circus, and co-worker Gina rebuffs the attentions of her jealous ex-boyfriend Joseph. She looks after her stewardess neighbour Philomene's cat when Philomene's away on a flight, and spies guiltily on her neighbour Dufayel, a man with brittle bones. Traumatised by her mother's sudden death and her father's consequent coldness, she has become fascinated by tiny things: baking a cake, plunging her hand into a barrel of rice, imagining how many orgasms are occurring throughout the city at any one moment. On 28 September 1997, Amélie Poulain finds love.Amélie lives in Paris and in a world of her own. When Amélie finds the album of photos of an intriguing collector that collects rejected photos in the Photomaton of the Gare de l'Est, she seeks him out and falls in love with him. She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship. He seeks out the man and when she witnesses his happiness, she decides to become the 'godmother of the rejected', anonymously helping people that are her acquaintances using her fantasy and little tricks.

On 30 August 1997, Amélie finds a child treasure hidden behind the wall that belonged to a dweller from the 50's, and she decides to anonymously return it to the owner. Her mother dies in a weird accident and when the shy and daydreamer Amélie Poulain becomes a young woman, she moves to central Paris and works as waitress in the café Deux Moulins in Montmartre. In 1974, in Enghien in the northern suburbs of Paris, the girl Amélie Poulain was born and raised alone by her cold hearted father and her stressed mother due to a mistake of her father's evaluation of her heart conditions.

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