Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winter's day, he stops at a roadside parking lot and is approached by Laura, an 18-year-old young woman who asks him to drive her home. He accepts, and on the way, she offers him "her services" in exchange for money. Daniel is furious, and throws her out of his car. But his feelings of remorse and the violence of his reaction lead him to turn around and retrace his steps, only to discover that Laura has disappeared...

Victor, in his early 20s, works at the town hall and lives with his girlfriend Charlotte, who is expecting their first child. When an incident happens at the nearby nuclear power plant, he and his high school friends are forced to confine themselves inside a farmhouse, whereas they should have evacuated the area. As the rain is threatening, they are keeping an eye out for the radioactive cloud. The next 24 hours will be crucial.

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

单身母亲雷切尔抛弃掉襁褓中的孩子后，她与男人们展开一段段风流逸事，只身前往法国南部蒙彼利埃，与一个年轻的女贼陷入了一段奇异的恋爱关系。与此同时，拼死而无法怀上孩子的女警克莱尔渐渐地沉溺于找寻雷切尔之中。
导演雅克·迈尤特的这部叙述精巧的心理惊悚片聚焦在一个单身母亲雷切尔身上，她似乎异乎寻常地缺乏母性本能。导演给这个扣人心弦的故事带出一种紧张、悬疑的气氛，一种节制的同情怜悯之心。