In Lille, Alexandre and Dominique organize sewing workshops for contraceptive briefs. Drawing on the experience of their fellow activists for testicular contraception, the two Lille residents are trying to create interest in the subject at the local level. The opportunity for them to talk about their bodies and gender relations. Together and with others, they will have to organize themselves and assume their new militancy.
In Lille, Alexandre and Dominique organize sewing workshops for contraceptive briefs. Drawing on the experience of their fellow activists for testicular contraception, the two Lille residents are trying to create interest in the subject at the local level. The opportunity for them to talk about their bodies and gender relations. Together and with others, they will have to organize themselves and assume their new militancy.
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.