Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring robbery.

French-Vietnamese actress Yvonne Nguyen dreams of a successful career in musicals, to the great displeasure of her mother, who would like her to pursue a more serious path. When Yvonne has no choice but to move back home, both women are strangers to each other. But, in the intimacy of the Vietnamese family restaurant's kitchen, they grow closer. Meanwhile, Yvonne is still after her dreams and finally gets the chance to audition for a big show.

In early 1960s, Loan and her Vietnamese-born French husband Pierre relocates to Auvergne as part of a resettlement programme for French nationals from the now-fallen Indochina. Loan believes the situation is temporary, and day by day awaits the return to her homeland.

Pierre, a pigment geneticist, likes to be invisible to others. When he finds himself forced to work with Lucie, the girl he secretly loves, he panics. He develops a chemical that, instead of helping him cope with his shyness, actually makes him invisible. However, it is thanks to his invisibility that Pierre gradually becomes visible again to Lucie.

For his first day at the office, Michel is doing his best to be settled in well by his new colleagues. But as always, the world seems to be against him.

It's been four years since Sylvie's son Felipe was abducted by his father Pablo after their divorce. Having been let down by the French officials who had succeeded in tracking both them down, only to let them escape again, Sylvie has now decided to take matters into her own hands.

Mia is thirty and getting divorced. She moves into a studio apartment in a low-income housing project. As a former swimming champion, she now finds herself giving swimming lessons to the other inhabitants... Without a pool...

Today, Françoise is spying on her husband Robert, who she suspects of cheating on her. The hairdresser is right to trust her instinct... She spots Robert stepping inside a gay sex club with a young man, as handsome as he is mysterious. Françoise is furious but she has no idea how weird and horrific this day is about to get!