Céline and Julie Go Boating

Julie is sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when Céline walks by, dropping various possessions along the way. Julie picks up the items and, curious and drawn in, begins to follow Céline as she weaves through the streets of Paris. The moment feels playful yet dreamlike, suggesting the city hides a different story beneath its ordinary bustle.

Julie pursues Céline through Paris, sometimes sprinting up the stairs of Rue Foyatier in Montmartre to keep up with Céline's playful, almost magical pace. The pursuit carries them through familiar districts as if the city itself is a stage for a living story. The line between reality and fantasy grows blurrier with every turn.

Their adventures through the Parisian streets feel dreamlike, and at times it seems they might part forever. Yet a bond keeps drawing them back together as they explore with a sense that something bigger is guiding them. The city becomes a labyrinth where each corner hints at a hidden narrative.

Both Céline and Julie independently visit the mansion at 7 bis rue du Nadir-aux-Pommes, a quiet, walled-off Parisian residence with secrets buried behind its doors. The building appears empty in the present day, yet it exudes a pull that draws them toward a larger mystery. These visits mark the start of their entanglement with the house's fate.

Inside the house, Céline or Julie discovers she works as a nanny for a family that includes two jealous sisters, a widower, and a sickly child. The atmosphere hints at rivalry and longing that threaten the vulnerable child. The mansion becomes a stage for hidden motives and danger.

A repetitive pattern unfolds: whichever woman enters the house disappears for a time and is suddenly ejected back to present-day Paris by unseen hands. They return exhausted and with memories erased of what happened inside. The mystery deepens as memories flicker like a fading dream.

On each return, a candy is mysteriously lodged in their mouths, and they realize the candy is a key to the other place and time. They meticulously save the candy, recognizing it as a tangible link between realities. The sweet becomes a tool that enables crossing between the two worlds.

They uncover the central mystery: amid jealous scheming over the widower's attentions, a young child in the house is murdered. The pattern of narration repeats like a stage play, with them memorizing exact phrases and joking about the melodrama. The more they eat the candy, the more of the day's events they remember.

Realizing they can enter the narrative itself, they begin to treat the house's events as something they can edit. They insert new dialogues and actions, reshaping the plot as it unfolds. The act of authorship shifts them from spectators to active participants.

They seize control of the story and rewrite the ending to prevent the young girl's murder. Their edits alter the sequence of events and demonstrate that fate can be rewritten from within the tale. The atmosphere shifts from tragedy toward possibility as they write themselves into the finale.

The rescue of the young girl, Madlyn, is completed, and the two realities fully conjoin when Madlyn joins Céline and Julie back in Julie's apartment in 1970s Paris. The trio's bond and the rewritten fate anchor them in a shared present. They settle into this new reality as if waking from a long dream.

Céline, Julie, and Madlyn take a rowboat on a placid river, gliding along as though the two worlds are one. They watch another boat pass by, carrying the house's original protagonists, but the figures are frozen like antique props. The river becomes a quiet witness to their new blended reality.

On the water, the other boat's occupants seem trapped in time, hinting that the boundary between realities is thinning. The protagonists from the house drift as inert props while the present-day trio observes them with a knowing calm. The sense of an ongoing loop lingers.

Céline sits on a park bench again while Julie races past and drops her magic book in a White Rabbit moment. Céline calls out, picks up the book, and rushes after Julie, signaling the start of a new chase. The scene closes the arc, hinting that the story will continue to loop.