Justin
미래를 걱정하기보다 현재의 삶에 열정이 넘치며, 사랑에는 쿨하고, 음악과 춤을 사랑하는 자유분방한 여인, ‘바부’. 그녀는 또한 불쌍한 사람들을 보면 그냥 지나치지 못하는 정 많은 여인이자, 하나뿐인 딸 앞에서는 한없이 여려지는 다정한 엄마이다. 반면, 미래를 대비하기 위해 열심히 일하고, 사랑하는 남자와 결혼해 평범하고 안정된 삶을 살고 싶어하는 딸 ‘에스메랄다’는 자신과 너무도 다른 엄마가 그저 못마땅할 뿐이다. 하나부터 열까지 서로 모두 다른 그녀들은 늘 티격태격하기 일쑤고, 급기야 ‘에스메랄다’는 대책없는 엄마가 부끄럽다며 자신의 결혼식에도 초대하지 않겠다고 선언한다. 충격을 받은 ‘바부’는 딸에게 당당한 엄마가 되기 위해 벨기에로 떠나 이제까지와는 전혀 다른 새로운 생활에 도전하는데… 과연 그녀는 딸의 사랑을 되찾고 자랑스러운 엄마로서 당당히 결혼식에 참석할 수 있을까?
A César nominated short drama about a mother, her daughter and her fiancé who live in a remote woodland cottage and of the days before their wedding.
Antoine
Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his father allows a refugee family of Polish Jews to move into the basement. Francois has a terrible crush upon their daugther. Real trouble begins when a Nazi commander and his unit also move into the house, totally unaware of the refugees living below them.
Léon Rouvel
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".
René adolescent
It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
Luca
A heavily indebted film producer tries to get back on his feet by producing a film starring Kim Novak. He also hopes to start a new relationship with his estranged son.
Ronald
A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family.
