Nicole Colchat

Navidad de 1999 en un tranquilo pueblo en la región de las Ardenas. La vida de un chico llamado Antoine se verá pronto devastada por tres trágicos eventos: la muerte de un perro, la desaparición de un niño y una fuerte tormenta.

Apenas asentados en Chapon-Laroche, un pueblo tranquilo en las Ardenas, Brice y Lara tienen que enfrentar la llegada de un enorme centro de vacaciones holandés. Para contrarrestar este proyecto, Brice trata de acreditar ante las autoridades locales las supuestas apariciones de la Virgen de las que es testigo su primo Jacques. Esto le daría a su pueblo la dimensión de un lugar de culto, evitando Incluso soplar la construcción de este parque de vacaciones. Pero la sorprendente respuesta del Vaticano transformará radicalmente la vida de la aldea y especialmente la de Brice y Lara.

Violette Leduc hija bastarda de un noble, conoce a Simone de Beauvoir tras la posguerra en Saint Germain des Prés, comenzando así una relación intensa entre estas dos mujeres que va a durar toda su vida, relación basada en la búsqueda de libertad de Violette y la convicción de Simone de tener entre manos el destino de una escritora fuera de lo común.

Police officer Tom Faber was found shot to death in his car behind the stadium. Inspector Hastert (André Jung) from the criminal police leads the investigation and searches for the murderer together with Olivier (Jules Werner), the brother of the murdered man, who is also a police officer. After an initial clue that led to the drug milieu, a prostitute appears who is said to be in a relationship with Tom and who has given him a key to a place where something important is hidden. It turns out that in a locker in the sacristy of the National Library is a file with documents that indicate Tom was on the trail of an influential businessman's sordid dealings before his death. But Olivier still doesn't see what lies behind the dead end of the investigation...

Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly seduces Pierre, a slightly older man who is working for Mathilde as caretaker for the season. Pierre is initially open to the relationship, but quickly becomes reluctant to become too involved.

Jack y Julie, dos jóvenes de provincias, viven una bonita historia de amor en un pequeño apartamento de París. Como Jack trabaja como taxista por la noche, comparten el día juntos haciendo el amor. Su idílica relación se ve enturbiada cuando Julie conoce a Joseph, el que conduce el taxi de Jack durante el día, y empieza a encontrarse con él por las noches.

In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by greeting the man with warmth and affection, the gathering soon degenerates into a squabble about why most of those assembled failed to heed the warnings about the Holocaust and flee Germany.

The antiques shop Gerard owns should help him to get rid of his financial problems. He dreams of writing the most important Dutch novel ever. Unfortunately he spends money like water. As a result he is constantly broke. His sister Ingrid is married to Pierre. She wants a child but he refuses. While Gerard is willing to consider leading a normal life, a wish mainly expressed by his parents, Ingrid's marriage falls apart.

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.