13세의 클로에와 12세의 조셉. 태어나면서부터 부모에게 버림받은 이들은 외부 세계와의 접촉을 거부하고, 서로에게만 의지하며 살아간다. 자폐증 증세를 보이는 클로에는 기괴한 웃음만을 흘리며 정처 없이 발길을 옮기고, 조셉은 그에게 단 하나뿐인 가족인 클로에를 보호하고, 어딘가에 있을 그들의 집을 찾기 위해 누이를 인도한다. 그러던 중, 마침내 그들은 보호소로 찾아온 어머니를 만나게 되고, 그들이 친남매가 아니라는 사실을 듣게 되는데.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden Ibrahim is plunged into a baffling universe that will make him a modern Charon, the ferryman who,in Greek mythology, carried the souls of the newly deceased to the world of the dead.
Rachid
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Apprentice
The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit Carole of the title refers to a motorbike racetrack. Jeanne and her 20-year old daughter Marie share a small apartment in a working-class Parisian neighborhood; the two live harmoniously, but the daughter is restless and anxious to set out on her own. Marie then takes a job in a northern suburb and their lives are forever changed. The racetrack is near her work; Marie is enthralled by the racers and their fast machines. Along with her new boyfriend, a racer, Marie begins riding herself. She then moves out of her mother's flat, leaving Jeanne bereft of companionship and a purpose in her life. Her silent, deeply internalized grief eventually drives her completely mad.
