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What do the well-to-do Védrineses have to do with a bunch of unpolished Gypsies like the Pittuitis? Nothing surely ... except that Théo Védrines, the son of the well-known publisher, has knocked up Zita, a Gypsy girl. Pittuiti sees red and decides to demand an eye for an eye. To this effect he sends his son Bruno, a guitarist, to the Védrineses', with the mission -not so impossible!- to seduce Gisèle, their daughter, in reprisal...

Searching for release, Céline turns to painting and writes essays on the inequity between genders as she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world.

Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.

A woman witnesses a video taped murder and is marked for elimination by the killer.

A young man with a large inheritance falls in love with a photographer's model.

A secret agent, taking out the pretty critic of his published memoirs, finds a dying agent in a lift, and finds himself once more in spying and intrigue and danger.

An ex-SS officer and his gorgeous wife find a refuge living in Eilat. A mysterious stranger appears from their past.

After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison... Who committed the crime ? It is up to police inspector Fiori to find out and the suspects are many. Claire is under suspicion of course, for obvious reasons. But she is not the only one. Why couldn't it be Angèle, the victim's housekeeper and former mistress, once accused of having murdered another of her employers ? Or Raymond, Claire's ex fiancé, who came to the manor to get her back and was rejected by her? Or else Thierry de Villesec, Etienne's brother-in-law and ruined squire? Or even Charles Tramillet, Etienne's other brother-in law, who hurried suspiciously to the village pharmacy allegedly to have a drug prescribed to the sick man carried out?

Creation and evolution of society in eleven minutes. (Social commenatary)