When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.

In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.

Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.

When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.

菲利普和丹尼尔在东南亚旅游时认识了汉斯，三人成为好友。在菲利普和丹尼尔返回巴黎的18个月后，一位律师找到了菲利普，并告知在二人离开后的第二天，警方就逮捕了汉斯，因为在他们居住的房间内发现了大麻，而根据当地法律规定汉斯被判处死刑，并会在7天后行刑。只有一个机会可以救汉斯，就是菲利普和丹尼尔与汉斯共同承担罪行。与此同时，汉斯的前女友（K)也介入其中，望说服二人帮助汉斯。。。菲利普和丹尼尔面临这样的失控情况，应该如何抉择？同时菲利普如何处理他与汉斯前女友以及母亲的关系，丹尼尔如何处理和女友的关系以及承担父亲责任呢？一切都迫在眉睫。。。