A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.

Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côte d'Azur when a hitchhiker forced her presence on him.

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.