Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

Laura, a devoted pharmacist and activist, witnesses the brutal murder of a member of her group. Shattered and enraged by the system's indifference, she vows to protect women at any cost. How far will she go?

In the summer of her seventh birthday, Selma is molested by an associate of her father’s who soon appears to her in the guise of an animal. Shocked, Selma discovers the power of her own language as a bulwark against adult violence.

Cassandre, a young winemaker, is surprised by a hailstorm, resulting in the loss of her crop.

Zoé and Léo are best friends, French twenty-somethings living in London. They work together, they party together, they do everything together. They both like men. Except that the man Zoé likes is Léo. When Zoé is accepted into a grad school in France she realizes that, before she leaves London, she has to tell Léo how she feels about him.