Juin 1789. Depuis près de dix ans, Laure-Adélaïde, Comtesse de Chabrillant, poursuit une liaison orageuse, ignorée de tous, avec Armand Gallois, simple bourgeois. Ils ont coutume de se retrouver dans un moulin caché dans les terres du château. Ce matin-là, Laure-Adélaïde galope vers le moulin, follement impatiente de rompre avec Armand dont elle a appris une nouvelle infidélité. Ce qu'elle fait impétueusement et le quitte à jamais ! Une fois de plus... Mais, aux histoires de coeurs, une autre histoire est en marche, la Révolution française.

Nine short films about love.

During a ceremony in an orthodox church in Paris, a 40-year-old writer and journalist is seduced by a young man, whom with she will live an extraordinary story of love and passion that will drive them to madness.

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.

1983 film by Aline Issermann

With the natural splendour of Lac Léman as a back-drop, Le Mirage is the story of a woman who believes she can recapture her youth by rediscovering love... with no regard for the inescapable realities of life. Maria Tummler, still quite beautiful despite her fifty years, is suddenly possessed with a consuming passion for a young visiting American, a friend of her son. But neither Jeanne, her friend, nor Anna, her daughter and faithful confidante, have a right to know, even though the young girl can see the emotion in her mother's eyes and is delighted to witness the physical transformation seemingly taking place. Maria is prepared to live this miracle of resuscitated love to its very end, even as some signs of a strange physical weariness begin to invade her new-found sense of well-being.

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.

法国大导阿伦雷乃1983年作品。本片用三个故事阐述他的观点，同时向法国电影史上三位巨人致敬：梅里爱、莱皮埃、侯麦。第一个故事发生在1914年，一个贵族建立了“幸福殿堂”，邀请一帮朋友，给他们一剂特殊的药，然后把他们放进巨大的摇篮，让他们重新回到“孩提时代”；第二个故事发生在当代，依然是那个宫殿，一群专家正在召开研讨会，讨论“想像力教育”。穿插在两个故事之间是一个古代魔幻故事，讲一群森林里的孩子梦幻一场坏国王和好骑士的战争。