Nathalie Roubaud

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

母親を亡くし、父親に見捨てられたガブリエル・シャネルは、姉と共に田舎の孤児院で少女時代を過ごす。やがて、仕立屋でお針子仕事をする傍ら、姉と共にキャバレーで歌を歌い、つましく生計を立てていく。また、その時の持ち歌から“ココ”の愛称で呼ばれ、本格的に歌手を志すようになるガブリエル。そんな彼女はある日、エティエンヌという裕福な将校と出会う。愛人関係となった彼の支援で歌手になる夢も膨らみ、上流階級の社交界も知るガブリエル。ところが、歌手の夢は潰え、愛人に留まるだけのエティエンヌとの生活も次第に陰りが見え始める。しかし、この時ガブリエルには裁縫の独創的で類い希な才能が芽生えていた。そうした中、本当の彼女を理解するイギリス人の実業家ボーイ・カペルが現われ、相思相愛となるのだが…。

In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..

Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.