Faton Cahen

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.

Cora is a teenager and has a lot of problems (mostly because of the relationship with her parents). One day she meets Katz, a hypnotizer who makes shows in the whole country, and his assistant Pedro. Then she manages to convince Katz to bring her with him in order to teach her his job. Thus Cora leaves her home without saying any word to her parents and begins a long trip through France with a very tumultuous relationship with Katz and Pedro.

Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase full of money. Despite his protests that this is money that he earned in the city, the villagers have their doubts. In fact, he held up a gas station and unintentionally killed its attendant, and is in hiding here. Meanwhile, he has married a woman (Mariam Kaba) with a child who left her husband and built a house for her. He is building a bar with his remaining money, but he encounters a situation which makes him believe that he will be exposed to the police, and runs away, leaving a pregnant, very ill wife behind, much to the disgust of the villagers and Samba's own family.

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.

영화감독 장 밥티스트와 배우 엘리의 사랑과 파국을 그린 영화. 니코와의 사랑, 예술과 가족의 화해불가능성의 문제를 자전적으로 표현한 영화로 안느 비아젬스키가 엘리 역을 맡았다. (2003년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 장 으스타슈, 필립 가렐 특별전)

영화감독 장 밥티스트와 배우 엘리의 사랑과 파국을 그린 영화. 니코와의 사랑, 예술과 가족의 화해불가능성의 문제를 자전적으로 표현한 영화로 안느 비아젬스키가 엘리 역을 맡았다. (2003년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 장 으스타슈, 필립 가렐 특별전)