Sarah Le Picard

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

It’s unusually hot on the beaches of the Landes, and 17-year-old Marouane is spending his last day at the campground with a nagging fear: will the body he buried on the beach the day before be discovered? Marouane also wonders if he might be falling in love with the charming Giulia.

Marianne, the wife of a wealthy industrialist from Lorraine, envied and admired, a model wife and devoted mother, is about to turn 40, and the comfort of the vast family home has slowly closed its merciless trap around her. So, when the shadow of her past resurfaces, a breach opens. Would another life be possible? And at what price?

As a comet streaks across the Paris sky, lives intersect in a mysterious dance. Two friends roam the city, taking stock of their lives. A young woman reconnects with a father she had long since given up on. Another sells drugs for her brother. Elsewhere, two souls haunted by death cross paths. Meanwhile, actors rehearse a play that strangely mirrors these lives. A portrait of unexpected encounters and the chance events that weave the fabric of our lives.

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.

As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends now have a very different approach to holidays... and to life!

Supposedly dead that very morning in the pool from a "broken heart" while swimming the butterfly stroke, a strangely rejuvenated mother visits her daughter. In another time, further south, a village priest believes he sees a wall of his church shedding tears that form a face... Miracles? It's a matter of perspective, and even of hearing, suggests director Samuel Achache cheerfully. Certainly, a birth and a romantic encounter, two events that will also be discussed here, can be described as miraculous. But what about when a phenomenon that defies the laws of nature actually occurs?