Primo and Jeanne are playing tennis in the sun beside the sea, but Jeanne's mind is not on the game. In a small apartment under the rooftops of Paris, Jeanne and Jules make love. In Paris and on the Riviera, a seagull follows the love life of this young woman, her doubts and her solitude.

Level crossing-keeper on an abandoned road, an old lady lives alone with her cow. She fills her loneliness by the tenderness she feels for her pretty cow and she escapes by playing the violin. Until one day she decides to stop the trains...

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.

A family goes for a nice picnic in the countryside. But the pleasant rural atmosphere soon makes a turn for the worse.