Olivia Côte

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

The mundane life of a divorced beautician and single mother is turned upside down when the man of her dreams knocks on her door needing her help.

Baby Theo’s journey shows us the labyrinth that is the adoption process in France when he changes hands from social services to his new mother.

A troubled teen from Paris moves to Ukraine to live with the father who abandoned her. She finds herself fascinated by the communistic ideals of a society that no longer exists.

Elementary school teacher Florence (Sara Forestier, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Names of Love) is a single mother completely devoted to her pupils, so much so that she shares an apartment on the school's property with her 10-year-old son and pupil Denis. When she encounters and meets Sacha, a disruptive student with a complicated home life, Florence dedicates herself to helping him. But as Sacha's plight and her impending work assessment force her to put everything on the line, including her position within the school and her relationship with her son, Florence gradually realises that one is never too old to learn a new life lesson.

Convinced that a divorce would separate her from her little girl, Zohra cannot bring herself to leave her husband despite his violent behaviour. She suffers his blows in silence. But all that changes when she meets Chang Sue.