Arnaud Denis

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

At the funeral of their best friend Mathieu (40 years old), four boys and three girls meet for the first time. They are between 22 and 26 years old, all knew Mathieu separately, and each of them thought he was his only friend.

When, at the age of eleven, Marie Caillaud entered Nohant in the service of George Sand, she did not yet know that she would be called Marie des Poules, the servant who fetched the eggs from the henhouse. She does not know either that she will learn there to read, write, play comedy and interpret 35 plays written by George Sand. She knows even less that she will experience the suffering of a love that will mark her for life... What will be the incredible destiny of Marie des Poules?

January 1939. The fall of Barcelona seals the defeat of the Spanish Republicans. Five hundred thousand of them choose exile. Upon arriving in France, the men are disarmed and interned in camps. As for the families, the administration distributes them among makeshift centers, several of which are in Ardèche. Elles et moi chooses to follow the fate of the Esteva family during these terrible months and the five years of war that follow. Lluis, the father, lives in hope of reconquest. Pilar, his courageous and energetic wife, feels that this new country will become her home for a long time to come. She thus leads her two children, Isabel and Ignacio, into this new life...