Acting
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
Parisian businesswoman Lili travels to rural France for a wedding and falls in love with Luc, a single father and farmer.
Paul returns home to the family farm and rediscovers the people and places of his childhood.
A man is murdered in Laguiole, Aveyron, Aubrac country. The young Elisabeth Richard, deputy prosecutor of Rodez, is handling the case. She has to deal with the hostility of a police officer, promoted on his own strength and not keen on the idea of being subjected to a young woman. Elisabeth especially has to unravel the tangles of ancestral antagonism and family secrets in order to unmask the culprit. The film is both a criminal investigation and a social painting.
Winter, 1990, at the border between France and Spain. Twenty-eight-year-old Sara, who is a few months pregnant, arrives in a small village in the Pyrénées to scatter her father's ashes. Here she meets Josep, her grandfather. Little by little, the past resurfaces and Sara will come to understand what her father never managed to pass on to her.
