It read: “Sometimes the best stories are the ones you only get to watch once.”

She looked directly into the camera, not with a pout, but with a knowing, mischievous smile, before the video cut out at exactly ten seconds.

He finally reached out to an old tech forum, posting a screenshot of the cafe. Hours later, a user replied: “That’s the Café de Flore. Late summer, 2005. That’s not a film, friend. That’s a stolen memory.”