A young woman is being held hostage in an arid area in Africa. An armed group is holding her in a nomadic tribe.

Adrien, nineteen, returns to his father, Clément, in his forties. He lives with a young woman in her twenties, Louise, who aspires to succeed on television. Adrien stays at home for a few weeks, during which he discovers that Louise takes drugs and becomes her lover.

1972. Gilles and Christine are a couple of teenagers with bad skin. Caught up in family difficulties (divorced parents), they finally decided, Christine convinced Gilles, to run away together to a hypothetical community of artists living in the south of France, in Lozère.

Maggie Cheung, a big star in Asian cinema, arrives in Paris to perform Irma Vep, the character that Musidora once created, in a remake of Feuillade’s “Vampires”. She does not speak a word of French, and everyone around her is reduced to approximate English to make herself understood. In particular, the director, who sees in her the only possibility of a modern Irma Vep.

Chronicle of the lives of two friends, Gabriel and Adrien, from the end of August until the beginning of September of the following year. Adrien, sick, is confronted with the early end of his existence. As for Gabriel, he is torn by two loves and must gradually detach himself from the influence of Adrien.

Martin, professor of philosophy at the university, in full depression, meets in strange circumstances Cecilia, has the origin of the death of an old painter. He will live with this young girl, who oscillates between pure and indifference, a carnal and stormy passion and spite take her place of the old painter. Her former companion becomes a somewhat cruel confidante and the spectator privilegiee of this passion that destroys one has one its certainties.