Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

Alda, her sister Olga, and the latter's daughter Sigga live together in an old house facing a cemetery by the sea. Self-assured Alda collects men; Olga shuns them, but cannot help following the activities of Alda (who receives her lovers in the sisters' house) with some envy. In their own way, both women refuse any emotional ties with other people, while keeping a strange attachment to their family's past, their deceased parents, and a third, deceased, sister. Will they, and will Sigga, be able to escape that environment imbued by the presence of death and find their way to a true life?

In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

和丈夫皮埃尔（蒂埃里·汉西斯 Thierry Hancisse 饰）分手之后，朱丽叶特（玛丽娜·汉斯 Marina Hands 饰）带着女儿朱莉（Anne Sophie Latour 饰）搬到了小镇上。离婚后的生活非常的困顿，朱丽叶特只能依靠给镇上的孩子上钢琴课和为乐队演出的乐手翻乐谱来勉强维持生计。 年仅12岁的朱莉在母亲的培养之下很快就展现出了令人乍舌的音乐天赋，甚至在某种层面上超越了朱丽叶特，虽然女儿的优秀让朱丽叶特十分的骄傲，但同时，她身为一名音乐家的自信遭到了毁灭式的打击，朱丽叶特陷入了抑郁之中无法自拔。在皮埃尔的鼓励之下，朱莉参加了音乐学院的考试，正式踏上了这条前途无量的道路。