Jean's father
Una mujer negra de Rose Hill, Mauritania, llega a la Suiza rural para casarse con un hombre con el que se escribía cartas, Marcel, muchos mayor que ella.
1er policier français
Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.