Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk tales. Injured in a tussle with a cat, the old mouse is bedridden and she tells her children that she will have to leave them to follow the little blind mole into the Earth’s tunnels. In one of her grandmother’s storybooks, Yuku learns that the flower of the Himalayas can bring her eternal light. She leaves on a journey of discovery to find the flower.

Basile is six years old and his granny has just died. He feels he didn’t have enough time to say goodbye to her and is already missing her delicious cookies. One evening, finding her hiding under his bed, he is overjoyed to be able to make some cookies with her. But she has forgotten the recipe! They set off on a journey into the past in search of her recipe, leaving Basile with a memorable image of his grandmother.

Are you afraid of the dark? Have you ever thrown a message in a bottle into the sea? Have you ever climbed down into a well in search of your destiny? In its new program, La Chouette du cinéma returns to present three stories (Matilda, Message in a Bottle, and Dame Saison) about children who spread their wings wide!

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.