A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect.

A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parent after her husband leaves her for a younger woman.

A shy nurse decides to become a superhero