Ostende, Belgien. In einem dekadenten Hotel am Meer treffen Stefan und Valerie, ein frisch verheiratetes Paar, auf die geheimnisvolle Gräfin Báthory und Ilona, ihre Sekretärin.

Als der drogenabhängige Charles seinen kleinen Sohn durch die Küche schleudert, schlägt ihn seine Frau Hélène mit der Bratpfanne nieder und verlangt kurz darauf die Scheidung. Doch Hélènes Schwiegervater will das Sorgerecht für den Enkel und setzt den windigen Playboy Paul auf Hélène an...

Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?

Der sensible junge Julien erlebt zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs im Hause seines Freundes Jacques eine traumhafte Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit. Eine Dienerin der Neuils weckt sein Interesse. Der mit literarischen und musikalischen Referenzen nicht sparende Film beschwört eine Epoche französischer Gefühlskultur, die in den Jahren vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg ihren Höhepunkt hatte.

In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?

The young Isabelle escapes from the orphanage and she adopted by two chaps on a caravan. They then meet by chance the posh family of Louise- who runs away with the three adventurers when confronted with the reality of having to marry a Belgian with a large moustache and a bald head. They find a dog. Later Louisa degenerates into a minor moment of sexual hedonism and multiplexing with the two chaps before they are all overwhelmed by the Armageddon that was WWI.

Documentary on the river Ganges.

Michel, reporter, finally joins his old isolated cottage in the middle of a park, having spent two years away from home. Our protagonist hopes to regain some serenity, but he does not arrive at the best moment: he did not expect the suicide attempt of Catherine, the wife of his brother Arthur