Iris and Maxence are a broken couple, fighting to love each other, trying to free themselves from their ideals, their fears, their profound vulnerability. But in this universal story, the line between reality and fiction gets blurred.

Through the form of a journey of initiation, Vortex retraces a young man's return to his roots. Driss fled his past and his family and must, during a single night, face up to the emotions that have held him back all these years.

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

Summertime, on a deserted river. 75-year-old Yvette is determined to obtain her pedal boat license, a way to make up for the life she never fully lived. Brian is approaching his thirties and has worked at Pedal'eau for the past ten years. Trapped in this menial job and suffering back aches, he dares not dream of another life. These two individuals, seemingly living in isolation, unknowingly venture down a stream of personal freedom. Between them, it's a matter of give and take.

Two sisters meet up late one summer to clear out the house of their deceased grandparents.

It is summer, in the South. Everyday, Sarah, aged sixteen, sells doughnuts with her father on the beach. One evening she meets Baptiste.

Unassertive Neila works at a local fast food joint in the Paris suburb where she's from. One day, she meets another black woman her age named. Championne: delivery girl by day and dominatrix by night. Drawn by the lure of thrills and easy money, Neila follows her into a world that will change her life forever.

Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.

At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in grappling with his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories from this time still haunt Jonas.