Sixteen-year-old girls Nine and Thaïs are passionate soccer players and spend their days on the sports field in the southern French town of Port Leucate. Shortly before New Year's and their first night out at a club, they're considering more feminine outfits than their soccer jerseys, hoping to attract boys. Eva, Thaïs's sister, helps them with this, also sharing certain, supposedly universal, rules of conduct for girls going out at night. But is this really the right style, one that suits their personalities?

Two teenagers walk towards the sea with the mocking words of hindered tenderness. But by sharing his secret with Dounia, Keny makes this afternoon different from all the others: it is the first meeting between two people who have known each other forever.

At the close of the eyelashes, emerging beneath awakening and radiance: this is the first glance. In this inner eye runs the dream of a lively youth, girl and boy, a promise. It is the first impulse, so that the first steps may be taken outside: the desire to flee and frolic. Before the foreign eye, animal, human, or divine, there is deep within us the inexorable perception of self, which our own creature always advances, haloed.

Jordi, 16, is an apprentice guide at Guise Castle. As he finishes a guided tour in his oversized uniform, he is still thinking about Marianne, the castle keeper's daughter. It's been going on for weeks. The great hall has emptied, the visitors have left except for one: Antoine, Jordi's older brother, whom he hasn't seen in years...

Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family home, with a father who has arranged a job and a fiancée. Reda is eager to please, yet the more he tries the more he veers off course.

At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.

In the end, it came from the ground. And slowly it took over. For lack of a better term, people called it melting, then they fell silent. In the Aa Valley, they were the first to have to flee their lands. She had hesitated.

Sihem is a waitress at a small café in Marseille. She’s doing her best to get her new life in France sorted out. But the sudden arrival of her brother, who has made his way there from Algeria, presents challenges she could not have foreseen.