Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.

Ruan, Normandía, 1431, durante la guerra de los Cien Años. Después de ser capturada por soldados franceses pertenecientes a una facción contraria, Juana de Arco, la Doncella de Orleans, es juzgada injustamente por un tribunal eclesiástico supervisado por sus enemigos ingleses.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!

Basada en la novela de Émile Zola "L'Assomoir". Narra los graves problemas de Gervaise, una joven cuyo marido es alcohólico y que, sin embargo, hace todo lo posible por mantener unida a su familia.