Mamie
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Alexandre's Mother
妻子たちとともにリヨンで暮らすアレクサンドル。かつてまだ幼い自分に性的虐待を働いたプレナ神父が、再びこの地に戻って来たことを知った彼は、新たな犠牲者が出ないよう、神父のことを告発することを決意。教会に連絡を取り、神父の旧悪を洗いざらいぶちまけたアレクサンドルだったが、その後、事態は一向に改善されぬまま月日が過ぎていく。そんな中、やはり神父の性的虐待の被害に遭った人々の輪が、次第に広がるようになる。
Edith Benesteau
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Bruno's mother
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".
Jean's Mother
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
