Si tu penses bien

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.

Garsonluk yapan Parisli genç bir kadının hayatının tek gününden bir kesit. Dört yıldızlı bir otelde işe başlayan Valérie, aynı gün, sevgilisine hamile olduğunu açıklar.

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

35 yaşında bir çiftçi olan Pierre, ailesinin çiftliğini devralmıştır. Tüm zamanını inekleri ile ilgilenerek geçirir. En büyük korkusu çıkan salgından ineklerinin etkilenmesidir. Günlerini panik içinde geçirir. Veteriner olan kız kardeşi Pascale, hayvanların salgından etkilenmeyeceğine ne kadar güvence verse de Pierre rahat etmez. Nitekim tüm korkuları gerçek olur, hayvanlarından birine hastalık bulaşır. Pieree, bir ineğin hastalanmasının tüm sürüyü etkileyeceğini, bütün hayvanlarının öleceğini düşünür. Fakat bunun olmasına asla izin vermeyecektir.

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.