Thierry Heckendorn

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

Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?

Michel Sénéchal gave up fishing to please his wife Yvonne. Gone are the trawlers and the waters of Newfoundland. Hello to the Duclair ferry, of which he is commander. One evening, while he is cheating his boredom with a bottle of rum in the streets of the city, he is challenged by the advertisement of a traveling circus that invites you to discover "the mermaid Elsa, the one, the only, the true.

The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging.

An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to change his life.

A lawyer finds a special nanny who teaches his children all about prejudice and love.

Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked if he could marry her and both of his children love her. However, Antoine who is a lawyer, aspires to be President of the Bar. He understands pretty soon that the job he wants to fill is not necessarily compatible with the love he feels towards Julie Toronto.

Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.

A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.

Leonard is a couch potato statistician who in his spare time writes railway station novels, with the secret hope of one day being published. After sending a good number of manuscripts that remained unanswered, luck finally smiles on him. His novel is selected by a publishing house. But having signed it with a female pseudonym to satisfy the imperative criteria of the competition, this luck quickly turns into a nightmare.

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.