The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
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Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
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Paul Dédalus a 29 ans et sa vie ne le satisfait pas. Assistant de philosophie à la faculté de Nanterre, il songe à quitter son emploi ; avec Esther depuis dix ans le couple bat de l'aile. Pire, lui, l’homme droit et plein de principes, est irrésistiblement attiré par Sylvia, la compagne de son meilleur ami Nathan.
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Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. In the train, he has some troubles with the border police, and is insulted and threatened by a strange man, who disappeared quickly. Next day, he discovers in his luggage a shrunken human head. He soon becomes fascinated by it, feeling responsible (sentry of the memory of the head's owner) and starts his own investigation. What will leads him to cope with French secret services.
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