Erika Haglund

Esperança, 15, has just arrived in France from Angola with her mother. At Amiens station, they don’t know where to sleep and look for someone who can help them.

Marguerite experiences a triple loss: her mother who dies in childbirth, the dog she inherits, and then her nanny, who her father lets go. Alone after these losses, she finds solace in nature at Mont Noir, which shapes her path to becoming a writer.

Isabelle is about fifty, she’s unpredictable and funny. She slightly limps and she is looking for a job. But instead of finding one, she decides to wander in the woods. A meeting, un meal, a strike… Isabelle is getting back on her feet.

Souleymane has been living and working in France for years, with no residence permit. One day, his boss reports him. A musical about illegal immigrants.

Elana, Mathis, Camille and Ulysse are part of a specialized classroom in an elementary school. They are between 7 and 12 years old and have various intellectual difficulties. For them, each learning process is a struggle, sometimes painful, between self and others, between self and self. But outside of the classroom, sometimes their childlike bodies let themselves go. On a circus trapeze or relaxed on the rump of a horse, they abandon themselves.

A teenager brings back a dog to its owner, an obese black woman. He soon finds himself having to dirnk with her.

Summertime at the beach. Swimming, yelling, playing, tanning. 25-year-old Marie who came alone to lie in the sun and swim in the sea, loses the bottom half of her bathing suit.