Film archives exist to preserve and screen these films, but what remains within each of us of the movies we saw for the first time in a theater? What remains of our cinematic loves? André Habib embarks on a scholarly and obsessive exploration of these cinematic remnants that accumulate, in disarray, in the memory of the cinephile—his own and that of some twenty other film fanatics he interviewed, for whom the seventh art is a passion, an unpunished vice. An academic yet an avid cinephile, he has written an essay on cinephilia, which he considers an anarchic discipline.