While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.

Au début des années 30, dans le Sud de la France, le destin d'Aline Boissières va basculer en rencontrant Arnaud, le camarade de régiment de son frère, Henri. L'amour qui naît entre eux est fulgurant et les lie à jamais. Pourtant le destin ne va pas être tendre avec Aline. Malmenée par les épreuves, Aline débarque dans le Sud marocain pour tenter de s'y construire une nouvelle vie.

A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.