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- Can love resuscitate a languishing man?
- In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up a mountainside, make bricks, saw logs, and sing daily to Chairman Mao of his faults. There's camaraderie among the five youths, especially with a young pickpocket named Baimao, and Tian is also drawn to a silent monk who cares for him when he falls ill and the others expect him to die. The camp is remote, so there are no fences or walls. Tian longs to escape.
- A decade after a man was killed in an accident in an isolated part of the French countryside, a family tries to come to terms with what happened.
- In the 1920s, the story of the eighth daughter of a Moroccan family whose sex was hidden from everyone and who was raised in the tradition of males until the age of 21 under the name of Ahmed.
- Richard is a teenager living with his mother, a dressmaker. He falls in love with Marion, one of her customers. Marion lives alone with her little daughter and works at a night-club. He wants her but does not know how to proceed. He dates her at Railway Bar and they become lovers. But they do not fit together, they do not understand each other.
- A Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?
- During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, where he discovers a more rigorous world.
- Maurice Hartmann dropped out of college and created his own business: Sushi-Express, a home delivery business for Japanese dishes. His methods lead his project to bankruptcy. A skilled trader will take over the business.
- In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he'll close a big deal. His wife Ermelinda, the prettiest girl in the village, starts to work as a maid in the house of a man called Santiago, nicknamed American. His manners, charm and indirectly his wealth finally seduce her, and a child is born. To get rid of her the American gives her money and helps Leonardo close his much sough-after deal. Meanwhile the American concentrates his attention on Guida, a girl of 16 who also gets pregnant. Santiago decides to court Ermelinda again, and she kills him in a fit of rage. Ermelinda tells her husband she killed the American in self defence. Leonardo takes responsability for the crime and flees to Spain to the house of his friend Iglesias. Some time later Leonardo realises he is not the father of the child and leaves his refuge to confront Ermelinda.