Shooom, a baby owl, hatches just as a storm turns the bayou surrounding her tree upside down. No sooner has she fallen from her nest, then the little fledgling totters off into the mangrove, pushing a second egg from the brood along with her. Come hell or high water, she’s determined to find a mother… even if that mom turns out to be an alligator or a raccoon!

Angelo is a ten-year-old who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he goes to visit his granny, his parents leave him behind at a rest stop, and he decides to cut through the forest in search of them.

The Puig family has seven children. And today is the wedding of the youngest: Jacques. It's March 1978 in a church in a suburb of Nantes. The father isn't attending the wedding; he's been banished from the family. Jacques is marrying Martine, a young woman who lives in the same neighborhood. It's a love match. But can love heal the wounds of childhood?

Jules's life has taken a sad turn after his parents' divorce, but his routine is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of his grandmother Jeanne, who is on a very important mission. Jules's big sister Lola, a gloomy 17-year-old, is also roped into the journey. Along the trip, Jeanne reveals to her grandchildren that she is endowed with a special gift: she can talk to cats and dogs. Nevertheless, a talking cat will remain a cat haughty, teasing, cuddly, dreamy and a talking dog a dog empathic, hyperactive and generous. Thanks to their grandmother, at the time when they think that their lives are falling apart, Jules and Lola rediscover the extraordinary dormant family legacy within themselves.