Bordeaux. Anne has no friends, no children, no lovers; she is alone and seems disconnected from the world. She pretends to live, going through life and her encounters like a disembodied being, without passion. Something drives her to seek human contact, and something also holds her back. Recently, she has been hearing strange noises in the walls of her apartment. A bird appears...

Paul returns home to the family farm and rediscovers the people and places of his childhood.

Raymond is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years. None sees him but people know he is around and, as all secretly reproach themselves to not have helped the young Raymond after his all family death before he disappeared, they consider the family house as haunted by Raymond's gh...

A sensitive young lady painter retreats to the countryside, where she can bask in the presence of beauty, possibly at the expense of an awareness of the needs of other living beings.

Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant if they go back to their country of orgine, the one from which fled.