1968년 5월혁명 이후, 크리스티앙과 친구들은 아편을 피워대며 하루하루를 보낸다. 혼란스러운 혁명을 겪었지만, 그들의 일상은 여느 때와 다를 바 없다. 어느 날 크리스티앙은 첫눈에 릴리에게 반하고 사랑에 빠지지만, 한순간 타올랐던 불같은 사랑의 결말은 비극적이다.
Monsieur Badurain
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he is a manager. Between shabby hotels and cheap restaurants, she meets the handsome Dubel, an impresario on the sidelines. He hires Rose at the drop of a hat because he has to replace Hermine Zibeline for a tour in the Paris region with the famous Billie Boys from Broadway.
Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings. Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.
M. Guilloux
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
Maître Becquard
알베르(마티유 카소비츠)가 자신의 옛 시절을 회상하며 시작된다. 알베르의 아버지는 어머니의 말처럼 세계1차 대전에 참전해 사망했거나 주변 사람들의 말처럼 알콜 중독으로 죽고 없다. 2차 대전 말기 어머니와 함께 살고 있는 알베르는 방에 틀어박혀 창밖의 사람들을 관찰하고 사전으로 개념을 배운다. 1942년 연합군의 공습을 피하기 위해 집을 찾은 이베트와 사랑에 빠져 결혼한다. 결혼 후 세일즈맨으로 징집을 피해 살던 중 자신의 어머니가 나치의 협력자임을 알게됨과 동시에 이베트의 가족에게서 소외감을 느껴 파리로 떠난다. 호텔 입구에서 구걸을 하며 살아가던 그는 우연히 프랑스 레지스탕스 모임을 발견하고 거짓 삶을 만들어내기 시작한다. 신문을 읽고 프랑스 레지스탕스에 대한 정보를 모두 암기해 자연스레 레지스탕스 모임에 합류하고 어느새 그는 레지스탕스 영웅으로 재탄생한다. 중령이라는 중책을 맡고 독일로 떠나 공적까지 세웠지만 그는 자신의 정체를 폭로하고 만다.
Marco Ricardi
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Faber
Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
Doctor
Eugene Atget
Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.
Dr. Saxe
In a village located in the central French region of Sologne, a young girl notes the negative effects of urbanization on her environment; then she imagines the appearance of the Ampélopède, a strange creature living in the woods.