A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.

A brother and sister pair of orphans live together in a suburban high-rise block. Each of them forges their own path. The brother spends most of his time helping his neighbors, while his sister is passionate about the theater. One of them lives closed off the from world in his public housing building, the other escapes from it by playing imaginary characters. But then one day, the brother refuses that his sister continue her theater studies. They then lock themselves in a painful fraternal battle, from which neither of them will emerge unscathed.

Haunted by the death of her husband, a woman travels to another town and finds a soul mate. Haunted by the death of her husband in a car accident, a woman finds herself unable to function, unable to cope with life and incapable of even looking after her child, Lucas. She leaves the boy with a friend and goes to the river with the intention of drowning herself, but instead of finding oblivion reawakens in a strange place – a Toulouse that seems to be inhabited exclusively by men. Little by little, she forms friendships and one particular relationship with a gay man. Through her relationship with him she becomes a new person and learns to find happiness again in her life.

A César award nominated short drama.

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.