Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

After reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale.

An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves.