Os melhores amigos Julien e Sophie continuam um jogo estranho que começaram na infância: uma competição destemida para se superar um ao outro. À medida que as brincadeiras ficam cada vez mais perigosas, eles percebem que o jogo é uma forma de esconder seus verdadeiros sentimentos pelo outro.
Baseado no romance homônimo de Émile Zola, o filme aborda os movimentos grevistas de um grupo de mineiros no norte da França do século XIX contra a exploração de que são vítimas. Entretanto, ao se levantarem contra o sistema, passam ser alvos da repressão das autoridades.
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
In an antiquarian, a man buys a leather-bound blank book to use as diary. Once home, he finds the book has started writing itself - with Chapter I detailing everything that happened to him, including the book starting to write itself.
Two women, Léa and Clotilde, with two men, Ludovic and Papillon, form a nice quartet of crooks. Their targets: pharmacists, diamond dealers, and gogos of all kinds who respond to enticing classified ads. Business is booming, but the police are watching. Commissioner Masson will eventually arrest them, but, ironically, for a matter of which they are totally innocent.
