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- In a small town in the west of France, during the German occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture.
- Landry and Sylvinet are identical twins who are distraught when they are separated at the age of fourteen. Sent to work on the neighboring farm because phylloxera has ruined his father's vines, Sylvain, the stronger of the two brothers, recovers from the shock but not Sylvinet, who keeps moaning and sulking. Caillaud, the rich farmer who employs Landry is pleased with the way Landry works and lets him woo his daughter Madelon. Some day, due to a misunderstanding between the twins, Sylvinet runs away from home and disappears in the forest. And while Landry tries to find him in the woods he is helped by a little savage, Fadette, who lives there with her spiteful grandmother and her mentally retarded brother. Against all odds, Landry will gradually for this dirty little wild child.
- Lionel Monde, the director of a big Parisian company, disappears on his 48th birthday. He abandons his family and his flourishing business. "He's just had enough". He is a powerful, prominent citizen, but he has no real relationships with other people - they are just for the sake of keeping appearances and a matter of habit. He is not intimate with his close relatives: his wife or his children. Too much affluence and money is isolating him. He can't take it anymore. He doesn't want it anymore. He wants to change his identity. He shaves off his mustache and swaps his elegant bourgeois clothes for an ordinary suit. He dresses as a pauper to blend in better in the faceless crowd. He travels south by train in second class. Monsieur Monde starts a new life: ''He didn't know where he was going or what he'd do. There wasn't anything ahead of him for now. He was in space."
- The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.
- A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.
- Happily married to Antoine, a sports journalist and the mother of two nice kids, Alice is the successful manager of an advertising agency. One day, while driving to work, her path crosses with Michelle, her childhood best friend. The trouble is that when Alice sees her, she is begging in the street. Distraught at this sight, Alice passes her without stopping. But after many hesitations, plagued with a guilty feeling, she decides to host her former friend until she gets back on track. But, in Alice and Antoine's luxury house tension soon rises between Alice and Michelle.
- Benji's father has returned from captivity, and his mother is sick and later dies. Through Benji's eyes we see a changing country and a father who cares less about his deceased wife, making some rather unhappy choices in the process.
- June 1974. Widowed for four years, police sergeant chief Jacques Gendreau lives and works in a small town in the South of France. He has just found the corpse of a sixteen-year-old who had disappeared for two weeks. A golden opportunity for Gendreau well likely to accelerate his advancement. Unfortunately for him, it is precisely the time chosen by his son Denis to try to commit suicide. Jacques decides - with a heavy heart - to waive the investigation. Instead he takes his son for a vacation to a seaside resort...
- Thirteen-year-old Marcel is the son of a married couple of Italian origin. Aldo, his father runs a café very popular with soccer fans. Paola, Marcel's mother, has a taste for wild flowers, for walks and for Marcel Proust. In his turn, Marcel discovers his mum's favorite writer, which does not please his father too much as he would indeed rather have him passionate about soccer. Paola falls seriously ill and to give her courage, Aldo, with the complicity of his father, has the idea to invite actor Pierre Arditi to come to their home and read pages by Proust specially for her...