When the painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) moved from a small village in Russia to France, he took with him a wealth of memories that would have a great impact on his life's work. Dreams of his Russian home mix with impressions of Paris form his fantastic pictures. This book is an introduction to Chagall's fairy tale world, full of promise, mystery and a certain yearning for a world he had left behind in Russia. The reader never knows where memories end and dreams begin. Life and dreams melt into images full of magic and colour.