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16-year-old Lucia joins the Catholic school choir where she befriends senior Ana-Maria. During a choir retreat Lucia's attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.
Twenty-year-old Anaïs works with her father on a farm that is struggling to keep operating. When their fertilizer distribution machine, borrowed from the farming cooperative, is stolen, Anaïs reacts, and fights in order to continue working, and to keep her father, on the brink of giving up and selling their farm, afloat. She also grows closer with a seasonal worker who she suspects is behind the robbery.
In the middle of preparing his apartment to have Mira live with him, Luc escapes to Svalbard. Stumbling drunk out of an Artic “Oktoberfest”, Luc meets Mike, a stranger who lives in an isolated cabin in the Arctic desert. Mike mysteriously abandons Luc in mid conversation. Intrigued, Luc decides to find Mike. Along the way, he meets Ingrid, a Norwegian teacher. Luc rushes into the footsteps of Mike who remains elusive and volatile, Luc hunts a shadow, his own possibly.
In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops spark an open war between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, who feed the game between hunts. Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat. When the club’s president pushes him to his limits, Brun shoots him and disappears. A year later, Fulda, a volatile police officer just transferred to the region, leads the investigation. Still struggling after a recent breakup, and as wild boars proliferate across the region, he is pushed to the brink of sanity.
Fantine (11) goes with her father to the lab where he analyses the remains of Agnès Sorel. A skull, a few bones, it is all that is left from the famous mistress of Charles VII. Fantine soon discovers that Agnes' ghost came to live at her place. She needs her help.
Against the backdrop of the Typhoon Yolanda, a mother and her son struggle for survival and deal with absurdity of fate, sustained by the hope that they carry, and what is lost and gained.
Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon another worker disappears.
After the cremation of his father, Vincent and his family gather relatives in the back shop of the family butchery for a final tribute. Vincent announce to his family that he leaves for some time with his boyfriend Olivier.
Jing, a 35-year-old radiologist, copes with grief by immersing herself in work and fleeting encounters. Her twin brother, Hao, a nomadic veterinarian, last updated his YouTube channel a while ago. Despite staying connected, they both grapple with the loss of their father individually. One day, an unexpected horse appears in Jing’s apartment, turning her life upside down. Jing forms a unique bond with the horse, from initial resistance and fear to eventual acceptance. An unforeseen event prompts the siblings to engage in dialogue and rebuild trust. Ultimately, Jing bids farewell to the horse, blending the old and new within her home, and embarks on self-discovery.
Zina takes care of Dylian, who was placed with her a few months ago and to whom she is very attached. The day the child is supposed to go on holiday with his mother, Fadya, the latter does not come to pick him up and can't be reached.
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Although Dayao's farm is the only thing that matters to him - he lives there with his aging mother, Guei-Hua, and his wife - he travels to a nearby town with her every day to work. Pregnant, Tian-Tian insists on buying an apartment and raising their baby there, as the only way for them to escape poverty and for her to emancipate herself from men. When hundreds of tons of concrete fall on him at the construction site where he works, Dayao miraculously escapes... but loses his speech and his mind. He is now a five-year-old child.
