Infirmière prison
Lisa y Julien están casados y viven felices con su hijo Óscar. Pero su vida se tambalea cuando, inesperadamente, la policía detiene a Lisa por asesinato, y los jueces la condenan a veinte años de prisión. Convencido de la inocencia de su mujer, Julien decide actuar. Pero, ¿hasta dónde está dispuesto a llegar por ella?
Georgette
Mme Trousseau
Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
Baronne de Mantes
París, 1830. Valentin es un joven mujeriego especialmente interesado en el juego. No cree en la vida y, menos aún, en el amor. Su tío Van Buck sólo venera el dinero y los negocios. Nada tienen en común hasta el día en que Van Buck para darse importancia se empeña en casar a Valentin con una joven baronesa venida a menos. Pero Valentin piensa en todo menos en casarse.
Rosine
A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.
Simon
In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Daine Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris...
Mme Borgès
Bruno Sachs es un médico de pueblo que atiende en su consulta todo tipo de enfermedades, incluso psicológicas. En el pueblo sólo hay otro médico, que es mayor que él, y al que manda algunos pacientes. Además, Sachs es cirujano y, con motivo de una operación, conocerá a una mujer capaz de sacarlo de la mediocridad espiritual.
madame Paginet
Banker
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?
The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament, but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.
Madame Laville
En solo veinticuatro horas, y sin haberlo sospechado siquiera, Victor Barail es abandonado por su mujer y pierde su puesto de trabajo. Incapaz de enfrentarse solo a su nueva situación, busca comprensión y afecto en su familia y en sus amigos, pero en ellos sólo logra encontrar a personas que, como él, viven inmersas en sus propios problemas y, por tanto, ciegos y sordos a cuantos les rodean.
Simone
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop.
Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
