Jean-Jacques
Louise revisits her childhood when her family decides to sell their farm. 20 years ago, she was Louloute, a mischievous and exuberant little girl, helping her father with their farm, fighting with her siblings and worrying her mother… When the family's debts accumulate and overwhelm them, tender childhood moments become intertwined with the harsh adult reality of a disappearing rural world.
Police officer
Raphael is the charismatic leader of a band of young thieves. In wanting to protect his territory, he accidentally kills the leader of a rival gang.
Professeur
Simon, um operário de fábrica de 30 anos, leva uma vida solitária em uma fazenda decadente no remoto interior da França. Atormentado por culpa e depressão, ele dedica seu tempo a cuidar da irmã Estelle, que ficou gravemente incapacitada após sofrer um terrível acidente na infância. Convencido de que foi abduzido por alienígenas quando criança, Simon espera ansioso pelo retorno dessas forças obscuras de outro mundo, sonhando com um meio de fugir de todo esse sofrimento e libertar a si mesmo e a sua irmã das prisões corporais em que estão confinados.
Karim
Laure, a single thirty-five-year-old, accumulates a series of fixed-contract jobs, unsuccessfully hoping each time that her work will lead to a permanent position. As her periods of employment shrink, her love affairs take the same path.
Alexis
Vacation: a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel.
Man in the tramway
Ava is a clown. She’s funny. Free. Confident. One night, as she walks home from her burlesque show with her friends, a man provokes and insults them. Tired of always looking down, Ava talks back and gets beaten up. Ava pretends she isn’t affected but finds out that she was pregnant when she got attacked.
Bruno
Anna is a young woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, does not trust her anymore and threatens to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her boyfriend Bruno to help her, and the three of them fly away to Colombia. During this journey, Anna will strive to build a new family, and will face the difficulty of being a mother.
Daniel Metz
Bébert
Anthony vai ser brevemente quarentão. Diletante, egoísta e insatisfeito, nunca se deu ao trabalho de cuidar das suas adoráveis filhas. Infantilizado pela sua esposa Alice, Antoine não consegue encontrar um lugar na sua casa e de repente decide sair para uma história sem futuro.
Quando Alice lhe confia de surpresa as filhas durante alguns dias, Antoine vai encontrar-se num mundo desconhecido. E enquanto ele não for capaz de assumir o papel de seu pai dentro da unidade familiar, acabará por se tornar uma verdadeira “mãe judia”.
Xavier
Worker or poker player, Samir and Xavier live from day to day. Bright young woman and future bride, Liza has a future all traced. They and she find themselves by chance for a weekend for a stay as unlikely as initiative.
Jean
On the day of his seven years, Simon is introduced to boar hunting by his father. His mother is pregnant and the boy will be confronted with the complexity of beings and learn of death.
Suzanne has been a prostitute for 15 years. She has her turf, her regular johns, her freedom. One day, young African prostitutes settle nearby. Suzanne is threatened.
Tony, estrela caída do rúgbi francês, vagueia sem rumo em seu clube à espera de saber se ele vai ser capaz de jogar novamente.
Haxmann
Stella, a young American, spends her days only in her New York apartment. To deceive boredom, she tells stories. Until the day when a stranger enters her flat.
Alexandre
Damien is on holiday with Elise, his girlfriend, at her family's holiday home. Elise's older brother comes to stay for the weekend. He's possessive and intrusive and his brotherly love knows no limits. Will Damien stay on the sidelines?
Emir
Isabelle teaches, Bruno steals. Together, they start believing that could be happy. The day when the police net starts tightening, Bruno fleesm taking Isabelle with him. Deep within the forest, they hide and love each other, outside of time, in a final attempt to hold at bay the world's violence.
Portraits of people taken in a same space : space of listening, space of black & white. In this space can go together the fantasies of the model and the filmmaker.
Bruno, accompaned by his friend Liliane, arrives at his father's place. His father lives alone in the middle of the countryside. Bruno wants to ask him something.
Christian is forty years old. Alone, he tours Paris and its suburbs on foot in search of a job, but cannot find one. He gives up his search, but continued to walk aimlessly until he is exhausted.