Alain Bonnard, owner of Cinéma Paradise, a tiny cinema in Paris, shows films to a small circle of regulars. Cinema Paradise has the atmosphere of old cinema - an enchanted place lost in time, where dreams and memories converge. Every Wednesday a sweet, shy girl named Melanie comes to the cinema and always sits in the seventeenth row. One day, Alain invites her to dinner and falls madly in love with her... A few days later, Alain’s life changes dramatically, he is caught up in a crazy whirlpool of events that only happen in the movies. All this could have been a wonderful gift of fate, if not for Melanie’s disappearance without a trace... The novel is being published for the first time in Russian.