Mère supérieure
Francia, finales de 1943. La hermana Luce trabaja como enfermera en un hospital del interior del país. Es una persona muy honrada, un verdadero ejemplo de fé para el resto de monjas. Cuando la religiosa conoce al sacerdote Martial , el contacto y los sentimientos que se crean en su interior, le hacen replantearse su vocación con la Iglesia. Dividida entre el amor de un hombre o el de Cristo, Luce sufrirá las consecuencias de su pasión y el destino le deparará una terrible realidad.
Madame Desrochelles
Cuando la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) se acerca a su fin, para una joven francesa está a punto de comenzar la más cruel de las batallas. Mathilde ha recibido la noticia de que su prometido Manech es uno de los cinco soldados heridos que, tras haber sido sometidos a un consejo de guerra, han sido enviados a la tierra de nadie que hay entre el ejército francés y el alemán, lo cual supone una muerte casi segura. Mathilde, que se niega a aceptar esa situación, emprende un extraordinario viaje para conocer el destino de su prometido. Las noticias que va recibiendo sobre Manech son desalentadoras. Aún así, animada por una fe y una esperanza inquebrantables y también por un gran optimismo, sigue su investigación hasta el final. A medida que se acerca a la verdad sobre los desafortunados soldados y su brutal castigo, se ve más envuelta en los horrores de la guerra y en las marcas indelebles que deja en quienes la han vivido.
Augustine Ancelin
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
Mme Bernard
In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.
La femme fanée
Melle L'Espanaye
C. Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott), detective retirado, vuelve al mundo de la investigación para ayudar al marido de su hija a demostrar que es inocente de unos crímenes de los que le acusan, concretamente del brutal asesinato de una madre y su hija en un pequeño apartamento en París.
Aude
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
Marcelina
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
La collègue du lycée
The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.
Irène Flipo-Risq
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.
Nicole
Un hombre consigue un misterioso libro en blanco en una tienda de antigüedades, pero al llegar a casa descubre que algunas páginas están escritas...
Nathalie
Nathalie, traumatized by the death of a child she had to look after, is hired by Marti to take care of the little Serge, his son. The boy is abnormal, immured in silence. Nathalie brings him out of his shell and becomes attached to her protege. She feels his life is threatened: serious incidents happen. For Christmas, they are alone, and the child mysteriously disappears. She discovers him in the basement, locked up in a chest.
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
