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In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Constance and her fiance hope to one day take over, modernize and expand her father's farm, on the verge of bankruptcy, to the large-scale farms that share the land and power. She gains the support of the influential and charismatic Sylvain, their fate quickly lying in his hands - When Sylvain's desire for her steps in the negotiations, Constance must face yet another kind of violence.

France, 1911. Louise Perreau is struggling financially to raise her son Gaston. A new job in Paris brings her the hope of a better life, but she has to enroll her son at Les Vermiraux, where children are supposed to get a good education.

A light look at the life of Berthe Morisot, renowned member of the early impressionist French painters.

Lucius Marnant is a pensioner who feels that his life is behind him. Returning from a funeral, Lucius meets Lahire a young man who offers him to improve his daily life by participating in clandestine fights between old men.

There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who's preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker's daughter. It's love at first sight.

Simple is 26 but he has the intellectual abilities of a three year old. Simple is handicapped. Since the death of his father, he lives with his mother and his younger brother Kléber. But when their mother dies in a car accident, both teenagers are left to their own devices. Kléber is going to take his big brother under his wing but for the two young people life is not a chimera.

Ideally, a love affair should last a lifetime. Four plots, featuring couples of varying ages and backgrounds, propose to analyze, through testimony and illustration, relationships that have worn out prematurely.

Alexis falls in love with Léa whom he has just met in a minor accident.Romance takes off with his visit to her beauty salon,but his new job as a teacher in a Nancy remand center begins to concern him.

Léa Faber is a young modern, attractive and ambitious business woman. When she learns that her telecommunications company will soon pass into the hands of a new boss, Léa exults: the promotion is at hand. However, as she goes to the inauguration cocktail, she discovers that the new CEO is none other than Lecamp-Latour, a sinister man, renowned for his moral rigidity, his misogyny and his attachment to traditional values. In fact, Léa embodies everything he despises. Obliged to adapt to the quarter turn, Léa sets her sights on a man encountered by chance: she asks the pianist hired for the evening, Yann Le Guenn, to camp the role of her fiancé. The latter is an ex-cynical and disenchanted astrophysicist, a divorced and indebted father, coupled with a talented musician. Faced with the distress of Léa, Yann nevertheless agrees without reluctant to play the Transis lovers for a few hours. Things get complicated when Lecamp-Latour invites Léa and Yann to a weekend in her country house. To still corp the situation, Benoît, ex-friend and rival of Léa, is also there. If Yann is opposed to the masquerade, he ends up giving in, for finance. While Léa fell asleep from the pianist, Yann, well determined not to get her heart to break, gives her a hard time ... Their duo will cause sparks.

Fall 1974, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing puts his Health Minister, Simone Veil, in charge of a daunting task: to carry the abortion law. During three days, she will defend her text before parliamentarians with exemplary tenacity. Diane, a young journalist, makes it the subject of her first investigation, and discovers over her explorations a considerable changing of the women's social status.

It's June 1945. The Second World War has ended, and many French nationals like Marion return from concentration camps in Germany, or forced labor. Marion should consider herself lucky, since many never returned. Hoping to make up for lost time, she reconnects with her best friend Pierre. Pierre is living with Julie whom he cares for as a sister. Marion and Pierre go to a special wedding - that of Georges and Italian beauty Anna. They had met each other in the summer of 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. Georges becomes a permanent Communist party member. His commitment to the party and its causes earn him well-deserved promotions rapidly. Meanwhile, Anna is about to give birth to little Francesca. Another principal character's life and career are taking off along with the Communist Party. This is François, who is also making good profits with the increasing sales of the party-sanctioned "Humanité" newspaper. Scarred by her wartime suffering, the torture and treachery, Marion is doubtful about re-embracing the Communist ideals. Before she takes any important steps, she needs to find herself again, renew her ideals, her faith and the will to live. Twenty-some years in the lives of these "comrads" - between 1944 and the May 1968 riots tell a composite story or history lesson of post WWII French politics focusing on the left wing movements. As individual inter-personal alliances and divisions common in those times occur, the broader picture of compromises, agreements and internal divisions of the left-wing in France unfolds in this three part miniseries.

Sprigs of broom around a murder victim suggest an ancient legend.

Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.

After 20 years of absence, Captain Fred Carel returns to the small town of Provence where he grew up. With Sara, his former high school friend who became a lieutenant in the local Gendarmerie, he must investigate Antoine Bernier's death.

Gabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge.

Margot is 10 years old and her life is upside downs. Her parents are just getting divorced and she had to stay with her mom and her new boyfriend in a town far from her father. Nevertheless, she only had one thing in mind: getting back her parents together. Furthermore, they have to live with Boulette, her maternal grandmother - Which Mamichacha, her paternal grandmother doesn't like. Stuck between her grandmothers who hate each other, Margot also had to get ready for her 6th grade.

Alain works together with Lionel at a publishing company, and Lionel is called "sex machine" there for his endless affairs. Alain bets Lionel that he couldn't fall with a woman and spend a night with her without having sex. Lionel accepts the bet, and at random choses travel agent Claire.

Eight children live together on a strange island, in supernatural happiness, until their little paradise is disturbed when an old lady is found murdered there. What has happened?

A woman discovers that her granddaughter who disappeared when she was a baby is still alive.

A young student of an acting school decides to try her natural talent for fiction in her everyday life.

At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.

In the south of France, a woman sends her lover to prison, accusing him of raping her daughter; Fifteen years later, as he returns to prove his innocence, she is found dead.