Le Paradis des bêtes

Oli, an aspiring DJ seeking success, is completely paralysed by performance anxiety. His encounter with Zach, a young man with Down's syndrome, who is an electronic music fan, will help him to free himself from the gaze of others.

On his return from Tajikistan, Paul is arrested on the French border. It transpires that his homonym made a trip to the URSS in 1980. Plunged into his past, he remembers his childhood in Roubaix, his family, the blossoming of his passion for anthropology, and Esther, his first love.

Eva, twenty-something, lands a job as a chambermaid in a prestigious Parisian hotel. Her colleagues are a close-knit team of strong characters. She also discovers the reality of this world where the client is king. When a social movement begins to take root, each employee has a choice to make.

Two powerful men are at war and are settling their scores through the gunfire of stock options, financial plots and takeovers. Léonard is the son of one of these businessmen and wants to prove his abilities. We also meet an heir, two kings, a chamberlain, a madman and a commoner.

Natacha, a single mother, is having trouble making ends meet. Walid, a migrant from Iraq, is also struggling to survive. He is trying to save enough money to pay for his passage to England. Exhausted but desperate for hope, they join forces to launch an amateurish channel of clandestine passengers.

In Ratanga, while a group of students begins their final year of high school, a suspicious death shakes the hospital staff. Between initiation, police, and romantic intrigue, destinies cross...

When invited to his cousin Irwin Moyneux's house Archibald Soper, Bishop of Bedford, rigorously denounces the novels of successful author Félix Chapel. He doesn't know that in reality behind the pseudonym hides... his host! Intrigued by the absence of Margaret, Irwin's wife, he deduces that she has been assassinated.

Vienna in the 1930s. Jean has no work and nowhere to live. He is so desperate that he thinks about drowning himself in the Danube. But a young woman, Marie, jumps off a bridge just before him. Jean saves her and comforts her. Suicide is never an option again.

Hopeless alcoholic Robert Avranche sees his life turned upside down the day when he meets a stranger in a railway carriage. They make love and then she disappears. Frantic, he chases her and hangs on to her as his last hope...

France, 1974. Through Annie's story, a worker and mother of two children, the history of the battle for the right to abortion.