In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

During the Cannes Cinema Festival, two young would-be actresses walk about on the Croisette. They are spotted by a photographer who is looking for new faces and who introduces them to a producer and his secretary. From then on, their life has nothing to do with cinema and much to do with sex and orgies.

A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

In the late 19th Century, a brothel madam and her workers are invited to take communion on a small family farm