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In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a "bon vivant"). He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with.

It's a story of fire and play. About women and men. About life and death. About the marvelous legality of coincidences. It's a story of love--heavenly, mortal, and devilish love.

David, an American Jewish painter in Brussels for an exhibit, becomes obsessed with Mimi, a mentally ill Belgium woman. As he uncovers the World War II roots of her disturbance, however, he increasingly manifests her symptoms.

When a graffiti artist sees his latest work destroyed by another, he sets out to find the identity of his rival and face him.

Two French musicians discover Algerian artists during a residency of creation in Algiers. Understanding, creating, living together, this is the adventure of this triptych. This film is composed of three chapters of 26 minutes each.