Twenty year old Lynn studies Psychology in Amsterdam. Now that she is living on her own, she is re-shaping her live and developing her own identity. This makes her extremely self-conscious. She is constantly thinking on how she is seen by other people, what people may think of her, what she should and shouldn't do. Her self-consciousness gets in the way.

Onder de tafel is a melancholic father-son tale which starts when Jacob hears that his father Kees has started drinking again. He needs to be picked up at the clinic where he is treated for alcoholism. Jacob takes his father to a bungalow park hoping to be able to connect with him at a place where they used to be a happy family. Kees does not recognize his son and the first chance he gets, he grabs a can of beer. Jacob realises that the only chance he has of reconnecting with his dad, is to drink together. And so they do.

A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday.

Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man she barely knows in a strange country with foreign tastes, scents and habits makes Dao feel rootless. Does she realizes only now what she has started?

Rachid is a pizza delivery boy in Amsterdam. He tears through town on his scooter, hangs with friends and squabbles with his boss. One day, he makes a remarkable find that puts his carefree life topsy-turvy. He discovers feelings in himself that he did not know he had: unconditional love for another being.

Private chauffeur Robert picks up a boy from a schoolyard. They spend the day together within the safe environment of the car and share a moment of being together that unfortunately is not obviously.

Abandoned by their parents, two teenage siblings navigate life in youth care.

C'est déjà l'été is a portrait of a family, but above all the story of a teenager who's life seems to be pushed of track by the lack of a normal family and desperately, purely by instinctive battle, tries to lift himself out of his wretched, semi-feral existence.