- On August 30, 1997, Princess Di is killed in a car crash.
- When Amélie hears the news on TV, she drops the cap to her perfume bottle. It rolls across the floor and cracks a tile in her bathroom.
- Behind the tile, Amélie finds a hole. Inside the hole is a tin.
- The tin contains the photo of a man and some antique child's toys.
- The next morning, Amélie vows to find the box's owner and return it to him.