Un cadeau, la vie

The young Nianankoro will receive the ancestral knowledge of the Bambara, enabling him to master the forces around him. But his father does not accept him as an equal. Nianankoro must flee his wrath and embark on a journey of initiation to gain his new powers, before the inevitable confrontation with his father...

For the first time in ages three prisoners are given temporary release for a weekend. They have 48 hours to reconnect with their loved ones and try to make up for lost time.

Julien Delaunay disappeared on a battlefield during the Great War. When the press publishes a portrait of a man with amnesia, Julie is sure she recognises her husband. So they meet up again and learn to love each other all over again. However, another woman wants him...

A corruption scandal erupts in the middle of an election campaign in Brussels. On learning that her father was involved, Claire Delval, the examining magistrate, withdrew from the investigation. She was then confronted with a case of rape of an activist, also linked to the world of politics.

Dom, a deep-sea fisherman, is often away from home and sees little of his children, Mailys and Mattéo. They have chosen to live with him but the judge is asking him to be more present. He tries to set up his own business to keep his children from being taken away from him.

Samuel needs to take a step back from his life and goes to isolate in his chalet in the Italian Alps. One night, Chehreh, a young Afghan migrant, takes refuge in his house. She wants to cross the border to Briançon. Moved by her story, Samuel decides to help her.

Esther, in the midst of emotional turmoil, receives a mysterious diary written by a stranger whose break-up echoes her own. Signs reveal that she lives in Toulouse. She decides to find her and sets off on to a journey that will shed light on the meaning of her own existence.

Back from a mission in Afghanistan that decimated his unit, the soldier Christian Lafayette is trying to get his life back to normal. He soon becomes embroiled in an opium smuggling operation to save two surviving brothers-in-arms.

Nélie rose out of poverty by becoming a nurse on the front line in 1914. During the war, she saw her friend Rose die, who was going to be hired as a reader to a bourgeois widow. Nélie assumed her identity and became Rose. In the hope that no one would discover her secret.

Anna wants to rebuild ties with her son Jason, who she abandoned twenty years ago. But she runs off at the last minute and secretly takes refuge in an elderly couple's house. Unusual events lead to her forming a bond with the couple's wife...