Sent to Afghanistan for 6 months, legionnaires Markov and Hamilton are caught in an ambush during an unauthorized expedition. Markov saves Hamilton, seriously wounded by rebel fire, but leaves the Legion without honors. Once back in Paris, Hamilton, convalescing, hopes to remain a legionnaire, while Markov, now a civilian and without working papers, tries to make ends meet with his son Khadji. Hamilton lends his identity to his Chechen friend, so that he can work legally. But one day, Markov disappears, leaving Hamiltion disorientated and Khadji alone in the world.

A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

Marianne has mysteriously disappeared from her home in a village called L’Orée du Bois. Her husband, a photographer, and her daughter Clara wait for her to come back. Unwilling to abandon hope of seeing her again, they go for walks and recall their shared memories of her. The cloudy sky casts shadows over the landscape. A few kilometres away, in a small town, Simon, a young man in his twenties, starts having trouble with his sight, feeling his eyes momentarily covered by a black cloud, plunging him into total darkness.

Paris in the seventies. A depressed graduate student hears music that will change his life; he becomes fascinated by the singer.

An ogre keeps in his castle two children, whom he intends to eat. A knight and his companion will try to save them, and will be assisted by the ogre's wife, who thus will also get rid of her husband.

Re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends: pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules.