Жозеф и Хлоя кочуют по сиротским приютам и изоляторам для малолетних преступников, нигде долго не задерживаясь. Они брошены родителями, но немая Хлоя в моменты нервного возбуждения с точностью и скоростью автомата складывает мозаику дома, в котором они когда-то жили. Жозеф изо всех сил старается защитить Хлою от внешнего мира, но психологи уверяют его, что он манипулирует сестрой, внушая ей собственные подсознательные страхи и желания. Жозефу трудно разобраться, где истина, ведь им с сестрой по 12 лет. И все же они отчаянно ищут свой дом, пытаясь раскрыть тайну своего сиротства...
Ibrahim
Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden Ibrahim is plunged into a baffling universe that will make him a modern Charon, the ferryman who,in Greek mythology, carried the souls of the newly deceased to the world of the dead.
Rachid
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Apprentice
The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit Carole of the title refers to a motorbike racetrack. Jeanne and her 20-year old daughter Marie share a small apartment in a working-class Parisian neighborhood; the two live harmoniously, but the daughter is restless and anxious to set out on her own. Marie then takes a job in a northern suburb and their lives are forever changed. The racetrack is near her work; Marie is enthralled by the racers and their fast machines. Along with her new boyfriend, a racer, Marie begins riding herself. She then moves out of her mother's flat, leaving Jeanne bereft of companionship and a purpose in her life. Her silent, deeply internalized grief eventually drives her completely mad.
