Guy Pion

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.

В меняющейся Европе исчезают границы, появляются новые независимые республики и государства. Полни и Челорек - два сельскохозяйственных рабочих из восточно-европейской страны приехали в Париж на поезде, на котором собирались и вернуться домой. Но никто из них не знает, где находится их страна, а так как у них украли деньги и документы, то и идентифицировать их невозможно. Два скромных иностранца блуждают по враждебному Парижу в поисках помощи, а в итоге вызывают хаос во французском правительстве, так как их ошибочно принимают за советских шпионов. Но единственное их желание - вернуться домой в Пражевитцу, страну, которая видимо не существует.

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.