En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.
This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the usual daily routine for the retired pair of former teachers (Micheline Presle and Claude Pieplu). Then their son telephones to say he will be coming over with his girlfriend and the normal pattern is changed, as he visits them rarely. While the mother is obsequious to her son when he arrives, past hurts and resentments bubble up during lunch, making it difficult for the son to tell them he is getting married. This is news enough, but the effect that announcement has on the son and his fiancée is unexpected and events later on in the day take a turn for the worse.
En el estacionamiento de un supermercado, un hombre solo, de unos cuarenta años, se acerca a dos clientas que empujan un carrito de compras hacia su automóvil. Primero, amigable, las ayuda a abrir el baúl y a acomodar sus compras; luego, se vuelve cada vez más agresivo y hace comentarios extraños. Las dos mujeres sorprendidas esperan que él se calme para irse. Otra mujer se acerca, la próxima víctima.
Un maestro retirado continúa cuidando a los niños de su entorno, cuando, de tanto en tanto, los padres están ausentes. Los recibe en su casa y les lee libros. Al asistir a una velada con el equipo de su antigua escuela, se siente mal y debe regresar. Lo espera una carta de una niña con la que mantiene vínculos secretos.
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.
