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Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.

A scientist is busy searching for an ancient woman, and does not pay attention to modern ones. Until a day when a businesswoman decided to seduce him in order to use his sensational discoveries for commercial purposes.

Victor Valance, an absent father who likes to gamble, returns home in order to take money from his family and gamble with it. His daughter is suspicious of her father's activities and messes up his plans. When she realizes however, that gangsters are trying to rob her father, her attitude changes.

This docudrama tells the story of how the atomic bomb came to be built.

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.

An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.

In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. His methods and opinions are outside the mainstream, but he has the protection and friendship of the local Prior. Zénon, an aristocrat with a degree in canon law, lives humbly. He learns of bacchanals under Masonic signs involving monks and women, and he warns those involved. The Prior is dying, and he urges Zénon to flee to England. Zénon burns his writing. Will he leave or will he face ecclesiastical accusers and, perhaps, the stake?

The reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production.

Nicolas Restif's "The Owl" portrays 18th century Paris nightlife: prostitutes, a blind man, a lamplighter. Blurring reality and fiction, it depicts the era's eccentric characters roaming the streets at night.

An eleven year old boy is in love with a sixteen year-old girl. To get her attention, he makes her believe that he is reincarnated, using the memories of Rose, his great-aunt, who has been living in seclusion since the end of World War II.

Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor.

After being released from a mental hospital, David Woolf kidnaps his daughter, Melodie and drives from Paris to Belgium, stopping to get the young girl's hair cut to disguise her. The car breaks down and the two check into a hotel.

Victor got a raw deal:his parents were victims of the Vel'D'Hiv roundup,and he had to escape from France.