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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A photographer remembers that special summer that he spent with his somewhat older cousin, the feelings that were awakened, and the unexpected turn of events behind his "best" photo.

A married couple dreams of people they want to be together during sex, and soon they decide to find a real third person. This search slowly gets out of control and leads to a surprise ending.

In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Diane Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat Loïc Lhermitte with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris. During an attack by German dive-bombers their chauffeur, Jean, is shot dead, and the car is severely damaged. Traveling any farther is now out of the question. A young farmer named Maurice, although he is injured himself, gives the four of them a ride in his cart and takes them to the dirty little farm run by his resolute mother Arlette. At first the Parisians are appalled at the squalor of country life, and when Arlette actually urges them to work in the fields they start wondering how to get away. Bruno, in particular, regards manual labor as quite beneath him. He tries to get away on foot, but soon collapses with exhaustion, and Arlette has to pick him up and bring him back in a cart. Meanwhile Luce has grown accustomed to the farm, and is beginning to enjoy country life... Eventually she and Maurice have a passionate affair. Loïc, too, slowly starts to appreciate the positive aspects of his new environment. At a large festival at the farm, city and country openly make peace with one another. Even Diane and Bruno are converted now. At this point the local landowner, a naive landed aristocrat, threatens to drive Arlette and the others off his land: she has stopped making any profit during the war and has failed to pay the count any rent for quite some time now. The Parisians now make use of their worldly knowledge to save the farm. Eventually they manage to embroil the greedy count in a risky poker game, and succeed in winning not only the farm but also his car. Just then Pétain announces the "ceasefire" over the radio. The effusive Parisians take their leave of Arlette and Maurice, get into their new car and drive back to Paris, straight into the arms of the Germans.

On a wintery January afternoon, Isabelle walks in a park by herself. As groups of boys play football, she strolls about, observing the activities of her fellow park-goers.

To save her father from ruin and disgrace, Else is forced by her mother to beg a large sum of money from Graf von Dorsday, an old family friend. The opportunity arises while they are in the same hotel with a spa.

In the East of Algeria, there is a family preparing for the important Islamic feast Eid-el-Kabir. The father is very sick and his only wish is that his daughter, Hanifa, should get married before he dies. Hanifa decides for her true love regardless the consequences . The movie also shows the difficult times Algeria is going through.

At the Eiffel Tower, a beautiful young woman catches the eye of the brutish Raspodun. He exclaims that he loves her and will prove it by using his strength to topple the tower. This alarms a group of bystanders, who engage in a pushing contest with him. Meanwhile, a dashing gentleman wins the girl's affection with a magic trick.

Young Martin, a ten-year-old, is chosen by his schoolmaster to recite a complicated, rather esoteric poem in public. Although he volunteered to do it, Martin is scared at this prospect. He is not sure to remember the poem to perfection on D-day. Little by little, the cursed poem pervades his life, which unsettles him all the more as, around him, his family environment is deteriorating. Indeed, his parents start having arguments and seem to be on the verge of divorce. But his father does not let him down. He supports him - although awkwardly at times - and helps him to memorize the abstruse text. Will Martin be able to perform it on stage?

A lost and found department somewhere in a middle-sized town. Eddie, a trainee clerk, is learning his job under the supervision of Hervé, his superior. He soon finds out that his work is repetitive but can occasionally get fascinating. Like on the day a stolen red leather handbag lands in the office and its content is spread over his desk. Fascinated by the object, his only aim from this moment is to trace and find the lady who owns it and to show her how much he ... wants her.