Karine and Jimmy are a close-knit couple, still deeply in love after twenty years together and two children. She works in a factory; he is a truck driver striving to grow his small business. When the Yellow Vests movement emerges, Karine is swept up by the power of the collective, the anger, and the hope for change. But as her commitment intensifies, the couple’s balance begins to falter.

1931年 巴黎14岁的朱利安在第一次世界大战中失去了父亲，他的母亲为了生计嫁给了一名在法国煤气公司工作的工人。朱利安始终不肯承认这个既粗鲁又暴躁易怒的继父，并拒绝了他到煤气公司工作的提议，因为他的父亲就死于瓦斯中毒。他选择到一家皮货店做学徒，开始接触一个截然不同的世界，并与犹太商人若斯内结下深厚友谊，而且爱上了他的女儿马里亚娜。四十年代初，维希政府的法令触及到了法国的犹太人群体。战争迫在眉睫，反犹太主义的倾向日渐突出。若斯内失去了在法从事商业活动的权利，决定把自己的店和女儿都交给年轻的朱利安。

Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day see their men again, they take an oath: if a man comes, he will be for everyone. Life must continue in the belly of each and every one of them.

Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.