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Marcel Spandice, a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris, is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world.

An actress makes several suicide attempts. Through flashbacks the trials and hardships that drove her to this point are revealed.

Returning home after spending four years in Lebanon, a doctor agrees to kill those responsible for a massacre, one of whom is the lover of his daughter.

During a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.

In a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first love, experiences, disappointments and jealousy. Sandrine tries to figure out if she should keep her boyfriend Didier or try with silent Joel, whom she's just met. Riri, Alex and Paulo desperately try to get laid.

The winter of 1940. Thousands of French, Jewish, Spanish and German anti-fascist refugees try to flee an inhospitable territory. In transit in Marseilles, they run consulates in search of visas. Gerhardt Seidler is one of them. By chance, he finds himself in possession of the visa of a writer, a certain August Weidel, who has since committed suicide.

Noubi, an avowed communist from a wealthy family, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal after Gamal inherits his father's fortune. In the process, Noubi is supposed to kill his stepmother Raifa, a supposed drug dealer, before she can kill Gamal.

Jérôme and Sophie are foreigners they evolve in a world whose rules seem to them as many constraints and adopt unusual behaviors which can disorientate who ever is around them. They say they are brother and sister and many people prefer to believe them and be satisfied with this version for fear of supporting a situation that is too scabrous. Only Olivia accepts to assume the situation her taste for derision and her humor allow her to overcome the provocations of the couple and to take an ascendancy on them.