L'Été en pente douce

Karısını öldüren bir otomobil kazasında kör olan bir romancı, suçlanan iş adamının ihmal edilmiş eşiyle ilişkisi üzerine hayat ve yazı tutkusunu yeniden keşfeder.

With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again.

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.

İlaç bağımlısı bir anestezi uzmanı olan Hélène ölen sevgilisinin yasını tutarken Gilles’i arabayla ezmekten son anda kurtulur. Gilles bir müddet peşinden koşar sonra vazgeçer; onun alt tabakadan maddi imkanları kısıtlı birini asla sevemeyeceğine inanmıştır. Fakat Hélène kendisine aşık olur.

Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?

Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.