In a summer Paris, during an epidemic, a ghostly character from another time discovers our contemporary urban life. His contemplative wandering, from afternoon to dawn, gives him ideas of alexandrines; those of Melancholia, written by Victor Hugo in 1856...
A twelve-year-old existentialist kid runs away from home to meet his favorite philosopher, Albert Camus, not knowing he has been dead for fifty years. On his way he finds love and rejection for the first time in his life.
"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lovers - almost all the male characters of the "Comédie Humaine" -, will finally find love. The real one. The great one.
A teenager is fixated on blowing himself up – not for the purpose of suicide or terrorism, but for the sensation and spectacle. His obsession provokes various reactions from his tight-knit group of friends.
Four young people, Bastien, Théo, Jeanne, and Han, meet in a Chinese restaurant. Jeanne talks a lot, especially about herself. Han, a young Chinese immigrant, is still looking for a place to sleep, but doesn't let on. The two boys size each other up and observe the girls.
16 years old. Teenage years, the sea, the summer. A middle-class seaside resort somewhere in France on the West Coast. Sam surfs and is bored. Kim waits and is restless. It slides and it squeals.
It has been a year since his older brother has left and Willy, fifteen, is waiting impatiently for him to come home. He thinks he knows everything about Théo, but shortly after his return, he discovers a secret about him.
Flore, eighteen years old, joins Arthur to go to a party which does not exist. On their way, strange characters and hallucinations lead them into the night. Flore experiences mourning and her lost childhood to find herself at the heart of her desire.
A mysterious young man gets to an isolated castle in the french countryside in order to make the service for a fancy party. But the family that hired him happens to be way stranger than he had expected. As the Lady tries to seduce him, he sees a chance to turn social cleavages upside down.