Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

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.

Fabrice divests himself of all possessions :,he's got nothing but his soul,against the raging elements.

Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.

After the mysterious death of the father, a family - the mother, her son, and her two daughters - try to keep their life together on the island where they have always lived. Lost in the mourning process, without being able to share it, each member of the family unit, which teeters on the verge of breakdown, tries to face the situation. But behind the force of strong links and of the moments of happiness which, for a time, continue to unite them, isolation, the age of the children, and the health of the Mother, accelerate an inevitable separation.

In Brittany, five friends film themselves in their intimacy. Little by little, everyone reveals himself to others.