The adventures of a group of passionate and fearless young children. One girl and four boys.

Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…

Today, death of a project youth following a police control - 25 years ago, disappearance of an activist - The journalists from "Back Up!", an alternative media, are investigating - Their opponent? The State determined to keep control over the Republic's forgotten territories.

Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most: Vanessa, the high school bombshell who never so much as looked in his direction. She's back in Paris, and the only person she now knows is him…

During a class discussion, Sarah, an 11-year-old French girl of Maghrebian heritage, tells the class she's going to Algeria for the school holidays to see her father. Overwhelmed by her lie, she doesn’t attend the last day of school.