Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family home, with a father who has arranged a job and a fiancée. Reda is eager to please, yet the more he tries the more he veers off course.

1992, South of France. Charlotte and Liza, both 17, are inseparable. Together, they dream of music and imagine themselves performing on Parisian stages. But a tragedy tears them apart, leaving Charlotte alone, with dreams meant for two.

Une autre histoire follows the story of Simona, a forty-something who grew up in the south of England. For several years, she has been a teacher in Annecy, where she lives with her husband and daughter. As the summer holidays approach, she receives an unexpected message. A past she thought she had erased resurfaces, questioning and jeopardizing the balance of her new life.

The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.