Carole, a celebrity neglected by her husband, falls for François, a young photographer. Returning from a business trip the husband surprises them, and the lovers have to end their relationship. Carole gradually drifts into madness and commits suicide. One year later, a few hours before his wedding, François has a vision. It's Carole, calling him from the other world?

Through a series of portraits, Raymond Depardon becomes a witness to farmer's lives, values, and family stories: all that binds them to the land, and its legacy. He questions what will become of these "people of the land".

Bertrand, a film-maker approaching forty, slightly disconnected from the world, find himself shut in a coffin for the night following a certain set of circumstances. In the morning, he is no longer the same. He rethinks his life, and decides to follow a man to an isolated part of the world, The Kingdom, which is ruled by a mysterious and charismatic woman called Uma. There, people of all ages reside in a warrior-type hierarchy and seem to be living in a happy autarchy...

Yvan, a short-tempered man in his forties, sells old American cars. His life isn't much of a thrill. However, the night he surprises Elie breaking into his house, he doesn't beat him up. Quite the opposite, he grows a strange affection for the adolescent and even decides to drive him back to his parents. This trip will lead them through a wide spaces Belgium, filled with improbable characters, and might help Yvan to close for ever a chapter of his life.

Jonas, a teenager with difficulties at school, meets Pierre, in his thirties, who is moved by the young man and starts taking care of him. Their bond will lead Jonas to leave regular school. Unable of fixing limits to their relationship, going back to the educational institutions will become more and more difficult for the teenager. Can one learn in transgression ?

Argentina, after the dictatorship. Alba, just out of prison, comes to get her son Inti. He is six years old; she is thirty. They don't know each other. Alba takes Inti to El Bolson, a lost valley in Patagonia where renegades from all corners of the world find refuge. At the home of the deceased Dr Schulz, day and night, in an endless party, gather among the "enlightened", the hippies, a collection of insects and a multitude of wandering animals. At the foot of the Andes, the children of the peasants have fun by demolishing a school under construction or attacking the houses of newcomers. Within these two rough worlds, Alba and Inti try to build a new life. Alba hanging on to her dreams, Inti to his survival kit.