- On January 1, 2003, in the south of Brazil, Laura, matriarch of a family of the upper middle class, found his family in their country house, for a Sunday meal. But on this day of President Lula's inauguration, nothing is going according to plan. As an echo to this political earthquake, everything seems to be deregulate…
- A failed kidnapping lands its victim in the hands of a swindling couple who decide to keep the boy for their own. Several years later, our young hero, roughly ten years of age, earns money for his surrogate parents by singing on street corners. When finally found by his true mother, she agrees to take in her son's chum…
- Martial (Daniel Auteuil) is discharged from a mental institution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. During his hospitalization, he ceases to speak with everyone, including his wife Régine (Thérèse Liotard), whom he had encouraged to find a new partner soon after entering the clinic. Upon his…