Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet love each other with a pure love. But their two families hate each other as intensely as the passion they feel for each other. The day after they meet, they ask Friar Laurence to marry them in secret. But Juliet's cousin Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel. Romeo refuses, and his friend Mercutio steps in to take his place, paying for the confrontation with his life. Romeo swears to avenge him...

A look at the violent consequences faced by a middle-class family, as seen by three different points of view.