Sarah blames her mother for being hard-hearted and points to the homeless man that she kicked off their apartment landing as proof. Cut to the quick, Catherine rushes out to find the man and invites him for Christmas dinner.
A dress, a washbasin, and a lamp – three familiar everyday objects chosen among a host of others by Angèle, Jacqueline and Barbara. These women give us a catalogue of their memories.
Imbued with a powerful relationship to nature, animals and objects, Ma mère qui chantait sur un phare takes you into a world seen from a child's viewpoint, with its strange and comical perspective.
Six co-tenants in a small building decide to have a party in their courtyard to get to know each other better. They end up getting quite a shock! The friendly drink starts off with champagne, quickly goes sour and ends with vitriol!
When the President of the Committee for the Miss Beauté contest, the very bourgeois Fleur de Senlis, discovers photographs of last year's winner posing nude in a magazine, she is rendered speechless.
He is a psychoanalyst, his wife a writer. In short they're a couple with no issues. Until the day that a jailbird recently released from prison shows up.
