Adrien Saint-Joré

Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 13-year old has been shunted from one care home to another. When his mother has to go to prison, he is sent to his father, whom he has never known. The man turns out to be a dead loss, a warehouseman who's given up on life, a man in his mid-40s who still lives with his Moroccan parents in a high-rise block in the banlieue. Benjamin's turbulence and violence soon prove too much for his new family.

Marie-Jo trabalha como caixa em um supermercado pequeno provincial. A chegada de um novo diretor, Antoine Podayac, atrapalha os hábitos dos funcionários.

Ivan, small-time bandit, crosses paths with Sonia, a young woman from the provinces who has recently come to Paris. He hates her from first sight. She falls madly in love with him right from first sight. It's settled: this cruel man will be her Prince Charming, her hero, the man of her life.

No ano de 1954, foi criada a força civil Frente de Libertação Nacional para libertar a Argélia, então colônia francesa há 130 anos. Em resposta às resoluções da FNL, para negociar a independência, a França enviou 500 mil jovens recrutas para lutarem. Em 1959 dentro do proprio ambiente militar, a tendência à loucura e ao mal se expresava neste período obscuro. Ali, franceses tornaram-se torturadores, não importando se eram crianças, adultos ou idosos, deixando de lado seus valores humanos e, muitas vezes, esquecedo de quem eram. Um dos soldados, chamado pelos companheiros de tenente substituto, começa a se questionar até que ponto esta guerra é realmente justa.

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Ruby é um ladrão que, após esconder seu roubo mais recente, é capturado e preso em uma cadeia. Lá ele conhece Quentin, um homem tagarela e tapado que se torna seu amigo. Ruby consegue fugir, sendo obrigado a levar Quentin consigo. Já fora da prisão, Ruby passa a perseguir seus antigos parceiros de crime, para se vingar da morte da mulher que amava e também para recuperar o dinheiro roubado antes que eles o encontrem.

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.

Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.