Crudo relato que retrata la vida de Joseph y Chloé, dos hermanos de unos doce años que huyen sin parar. Son dos niños perdidos, que fueron abandonados al nacer. Chloé no habla, está fuera del mundo y no soporta que nadie la toque. Con pequeñas piezas de colores hace mosaicos con forma de casa, siempre la misma. Camina derecha, con algo parecido a una sonrisa en su rostro, como si sus pasos la condujeran hacia un lugar preciso. Por su parte, Joseph organiza las fugas y luego la sigue, la protege, convencido de que ella quiere encontrar la casa de sus padres, que puede conseguirlo, y que una vez que haya logrado su objetivo se curará. Éste es el sueño de Joseph: tener una casa, una familia, una hermana con la que pueda comunicarse y jugar..., una hermana que pueda corresponder al insensato amor que siente por ella.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden Ibrahim is plunged into a baffling universe that will make him a modern Charon, the ferryman who,in Greek mythology, carried the souls of the newly deceased to the world of the dead.
Rachid
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Apprentice
The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit Carole of the title refers to a motorbike racetrack. Jeanne and her 20-year old daughter Marie share a small apartment in a working-class Parisian neighborhood; the two live harmoniously, but the daughter is restless and anxious to set out on her own. Marie then takes a job in a northern suburb and their lives are forever changed. The racetrack is near her work; Marie is enthralled by the racers and their fast machines. Along with her new boyfriend, a racer, Marie begins riding herself. She then moves out of her mother's flat, leaving Jeanne bereft of companionship and a purpose in her life. Her silent, deeply internalized grief eventually drives her completely mad.
