Laurence Imbert

Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region.

Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those around him begin to prod, they discover that Martin’s single mother has died. Fearful that he will be sent away from home now that he has no parents, Martin looks to his friends for help. With Jerome leading the charge to save Martin from the orphanage, the first thing they decide to do is dispose of the mother’s body.

A number of strange characters come to Corecheux, in France: the Lalyre famille, an homossexual notary, a severe-looking governess, a female witch, a veterinarian, a journalist, and possibly the most chaste of them all, a few young girls ready to lift their skirts up at anything... A young priest takes over the mission to preach at this country estate village - but maybe he is too vigorous for the task.

A young girl sews her own wedding dress and gets married alone.

Two tourists in Provence meet an old naive peasant painter who tells them the extraordinary story that happened in the village in 1890: Amédée, the teacher, succeeded in stealing.

Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.

A stranger arrives in a small town and soon the locals suspect that he might be a sorcerer.