The theater in the film was a mirror of the very room they sat in. A projectionist there—young, fierce—handed Adeline a ticket stamped SSRMovie.com Exclusive and told her the screening was for those who had forgotten too much. The movie-within-the-movie showed Adeline’s own life branching in small, impossible ways: choices where she stopped to pick a song on a radio, saves a stranger from a fall, learns to dance. Each alternate scene was catalogued and shelved as if someone else’s version of her life had been given away.