Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Un grupo de cuatro jóvenes profesores de instituto parecen convertirse en el centro de la crítica para el resto de sus compañeros, ya que para combatir la rutina del día a día, ellos parecen traer al instituto nuevas y refrescantes ideas, con divertidos juegos que en ocasiones les hacen parecer a ellos más infantiles que sus alumnos.

A young Vietnamese boy's life is thrown into turmoil by the war raging in his country. The ten year old remains with his mother and baby sister as his father goes off to fight for the Viet Cong. During his father's absence, his mother dies from overwork and the inability to find proper medical care for her illness. He cares for his baby sister and struggles to earn a living by shining shoes and doing other odd jobs before his father returns. Both an American soldier and a Viet Cong regular are shown defending their country's political agenda. Also shown are guerilla tactics and bombings in this feature directed by veteran combat photographer Raoul Coutard.

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming.

Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have fun. When Isabelle becomes pregnant, Claude is advised by both families to marry but things get more complicated when he meets an English woman.

Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a boarder near Bourges, he's lost in the woods and finds a chateau where an engagement party's in progress: there he falls eternally in love with Yvonne and she with him. Back at school, he hears she is in Paris, so he follows in a vain search and meets a woman, jilted by her lover. In the countryside a few year's later, Augustin's friend François finds Yvonne and brings Augustin to her. They marry, but the next day, Augustin leaves to fulfill a youthful promise he made to Yvonne's brother. François comforts the pregnant Yvonne as they await Augustin's return.

Dos hermanas, ambas profesoras de música ( Deneuve y Dorléac), viven en la pequeña población de Rochefort y sueñan con encontrar un gran amor. Homenaje a los grandes musicales de la época dorada de Hollywood.

Geneviève es una joven que vive con su madre y le ayuda en la tienda de paraguas que tienen en Cherburgo. Está enamorada de Guy, un joven mecánico, con el que piensa casarse a pesar de la oposición de su madre, que considera a Geneviève demasiado joven y a Guy demasiado pobre. Para pagar una deuda, la madre se ve obligada a vender un collar a un rico joyero que se enamora de Geneviève desde el primer momento. Mientras tanto, Guy tendrá que ausentarse dos años para ir a Argelia a hacer el servicio militar.

Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.