A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.

During a visit to the Braille Museum in Coupvray, Aurore Blin, a 21-year-old blind woman, is given a signet ring that belonged to her father, who died twelve years earlier in a strange accident. Despite her blindness, the young woman, intrigued, decides to continue the research her father was conducting at the time of his death. She then sets out to discover the story of her ancestor, Henri Blin. In 1825, Louis Braille entrusted Henri Blin, a teacher at the National Institute for Young Blind People, with the task of protecting the original matrix of his writing system, which was coveted for military purposes by the French and English secret services...

Alban is blind. Between home and school, he has organised his life to make things seem normal. When he wins a camera it brings home the fact that certain aspects of life are inaccessible to him. He will have to master them, even reinvent them, so that they play a role in his inner life

Suzanne is a young, blind teacher. Within a small community of the visually impaired, she assiduously follows a course in art history devoted to the erotology of Satan and to witches. Transformed, Suzanne tries to steal a man's eyes in order to get her sight back. The failure of her first attempt leads her to more easily approachable and impressionable prey, her personal reader, Pierre, who is madly in love with her.

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

A painter thinks he has found a quiet spot to work in, but the chosen place turns out to be busier than expected...