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- The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.
- A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.
- Marie Kermeur, a cop, comes back to the island where she was born to get married. When one of her brothers is killed, she decide to investigate the murder. Her investigation will reveal the many secrets of the island's population.
- Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
- Labbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?
- A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
- A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
- In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.
- During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
- Paris 1810. Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it. He is supported in his research work by his senior partner and friend, Doctor Bayle, but this one dies before they are able to diagnose and defeat the "enemy". One day, after observing a children's toy, Laennec discovers the principle of the transmission of sound through wood and applies it to a major medical instrument of his invention, the stethoscope. On the other hand, he wins a first victory over consumption by saving Jacquemine, a childhood friend, who soon becomes his wife. Nevertheless Laennec is the laughing stock of many a fellow-colleague, especially famed Doctor Broussais. But , remaining undeterred, Laennec goes on with his research. He works hard, too hard, until he too gets struck by the "enemy".
- A young man kidnaps an 87-year-old woman to escape his looming fatherhood and instead finds what's important about life.
- A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
- With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter (Stéphane Ferrara) has circled the au pair Michèle (Beate Jensen). She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. "I'll kill you," says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?
- Lucien Paumelle has been a human-rights activist for decades and his relatives are not astonished when he announces that he is determined to help illegal immigrants by giving them shelter in his apartment. But they are downright appalled when they meet the undocumented aliens for the first time--a little girl named Sorina and, mostly her mother, Tatiana, a twenty-eight-year-old sex bomb. To make matters worse, Lucien offhandedly tells his next of kin that he has just - married Tatiana. How will Arnaud, his son, and Babette, his daughter, react?
- A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble.
- The story of a couple pondering about fatherhood.
- Elsa, a young woman who had an abortion, looks for her lost innocence tracing back her childhood.
- The sequel deals with a murder in the Breton and British oyster businesses. By Breton pride, the author means the oysters.
- To go by the book and the locations, it is about two murders in the fishing business in the extreme west of Brittany around the bay of Douarnenez. A fisherwoman is found with her throat slit next to the fish auctioning hall in Douarnenez. Just as Commissaire Dupin and his team start questioning locals, a second murder is reported from the small island of Sein. The first victim hails from there, was known for her sustainable opinions and opposition to the local fishing magnate. The second victim is a biologist who just recently moved there. She was occupied with studying the dolphins in Iroise Maritime Nature Park.