Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.
Whilst their game of tennis first looked as boring as usual, Pierrick and Alexis, two 30-year-old men who you wouldn’t call athletes, suddenly find themselves incredibly gifted players.
Two lesbians are victims of a break-in. Together with their clan of friends, they undertake a wild investigation, with suspense and rigour, to arrive at the truth. Sensitivities are aroused around life choices, and political choices. Questions of morality comically embellished with words of abuse falling into drunkenness.
After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.
Pyrénées-Ménilmontant in Paris : two friends board the no. 96 bus. During the journey, Hugues evokes his film projects. Louis listens to him, but he's thinking about other things. The bus makes its way through the city streets and memories accumulate.
In a large building in a Parisian district, Elsa lives alone. Her young neighbor Alice hears her playing the piano at home and enjoys it. Elsa suggests that she learn the piano and offers to play it at home, when she is not there. Alice thus gets into the habit of living in Elsa's apartment several times a week.
An unknown, shapeless disaster happens. Paris must be evacuated. Two friends, Camille and Paul, set out to find shelter in a remote village in Italy, where Paul's brother lives.
Helen remembers an evening when she received a visit from her friend Tom, upset because he'd believed he'd seen a friend in the métro who shouldn't have been there. Helen listened to him, but upon hearing the rain, she thought of Maud who perhaps would not return to Carteret that night, of Alice, who never came back. Their conversation had led them to evoke two events from the past that they'd forgotten, which had locked off something of their lives.
After a break-up, Jimmy has returned to live in the neighborhood where he lived as a student. He knows the streets, cafes, and discussions among friends by heart. And yet, this afternoon, everything seems foreign to him, apart from his sorrow.
Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.
On the roads of Saintonge, at the entrance of the villages or along the ring roads, strange constructions have been laid out in places that we pass without stopping: roundabouts organized with an obsession for local culture. This film is an opportunity to turn around these postcard landscapes where oysters, parasols and prehistoric women live together.
For a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a writer, returns to Caen where she lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches at the university. As they reconnect, she begins to be disturbed by presences in the house.
Les Belles Portes neighbourhood. Elsa is staying at her father's house while he is away on holiday, when her brother Jacques unexpectedly comes back from China.
Paris, Boris and Alexis are trying to give a meaning to their idleness. In the countryside, Pierre is achieving his opera, which is a new take on the myth of Orpheus, while trying to forget Adelia, who just dumped him.