Vanessa, aged eighteen, has just come out of prison and is staying at her half-sisters that she does not know that well. Each night, captivated by the chimaeras, the noise and the fury, she is reborn.

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies are falling. Panicked at the idea that he could get arrested, Carmen forbids him to go out, and locks herself with him. Gradually, Hussain get the feeling that she is watching him…

Worried about their child’s strange behavior since his return from a field trip, a couple of parents want to meet Daniel, his teacher.

During a birthday celebration, four women who were all friends when they were in high school, but who had since lost touch with each other, meet up again. They are now thirty years old and have taken different paths in life. But perhaps high school isn't so far away.

The second part of the musical short film Halfway ( 9 months after the first events).

Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.

Lizon has just attended her friend Marie's birthday. The friends around the birthday cake, the candles to be blown, the wish to be made amazed her. For her ninth birthday, Lizon wants to have the same thing. A birthday with a cake, candles and her friends, at her home: in the car.

Louis is a 27-year-old reservist and patriot, as is his childhood friend and longtime rival Bastien, who sees the war, like everything else, as an opportunity. One night, as their unit sleeps near the front, they're bombed. Louis and his comrades fall back in disarray and in the general panic lose their regiment. When they locate it again a few hours later, their general accuses them of desertion.

A young bass player and his driver cross Iceland to be auditioned by the singer Björk.

Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to destroy compromising documents, it is the world around him that mysteriously begins to disappear. No one seems to escape this fantastic gear, not even Thomas.