Paris, early 1900's. Provoking a cataclysmic crisis in her conventional, bourgeois marriage, Mrs. Hervey and her husband each take on the supposed virtues of the opposite sex. Mr. Hervey loses everything in a fatal blow from the one place he would never have imagined: his wife, his wife who is no longer his wife. She, GABRIELLE, emerges as untouched and intact as a block of granite. Stripped of his manhood, Mr. Hervey, now left with nothing, will fall apart and disappear.

Marie is a young and beautiful prostitute. She loves her work, she's good at what she does. One night, she encounters Jeannot, a street wino, sleeping on her doorstep. She offers him shelter, not knowing that he is about to unleash in her a passion so consuming that it will change their lives forever.

Xavier, the hero of L'Auberge Espagnole, is off on yet another adventure. This time he's hopping back and forth between Paris, London and Saint Petersburg, jumping in and out of bed again with lots and lots of women. Five years after his return from Barcelona, Xavier is faced with the ultimate challenge: growing up in a world full of contradictions. As he ricochets back and forth between money problems, creative challenges and his ever-turbulent love life, Xavier struggles to find his way. He subsequently throws himself into a wholehearted quest for the "perfect life" with the "perfect woman", only to realize that this wacky, chaotic, circuitous path called life - this series of stories within-a-story-within-a-story, like so many nesting, RUSSIAN DOLLS - leads to the discovery of his own true heart.

A passionate and secret love story as told by the two protagonists Anna and Otto, from the age of eight until the age of twenty-five. It all starts in 1980, when after school a girl and a boy start to run for different reasons... From that afternoon when the world escaped from their grasp, the lives of Anna and Otto will be intertwined in a single circle that will begin to close seventeen years later, in Finland, on the very edge of the Arctic Circle.

A young couple, Gilles and Marion in their 30's, filmed in five crucial parts of their life.