Amélie waits tables in a tiny café in Paris. She has always been shy with a pronounced taste for life's small pleasures: dipping her hand into a sack of grain cracking a crème brûlée with the back of a tea spoon or skipping stones on the Canal Saint Martin. One night her life changes forever when she discovers an old box of childhood treasures hidden beneath her floorboards. She anonymously returns it to its rightful owner and watches from a distance as his life is transformed by the discovery. And thus begins her quest: a series of inventive plans to straighten out other people's lives...