Ludmila Ruoso

Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.

Las Sangres 1856. Women from a small religious community are found dead and mutilated. Jakob the patriarch of the community asks James, a taciturn cow-boy to investigate the murders.

Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

Bruno and Maryline move into a small town of the French Apls, chasing their dream for a better life. But their primary enthusiasm becomes disappointment, anger and jealousy.

François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office hours, canceling planned holidays or harming his family life. However, when one night, Simon Lacaze, his best friend and colleague, commits suicide just after being fired ignominiously, François rebels...

Night has just fallen. It's time to sleep, except for Sandier, whose hard work is just beginning. On his bike, with a large canvas bag filled with sand on the back, he crosses the city to put the children to sleep. Standing in front of a house, ready to enter, he discovers that he has clumsily forgotten his bag on his bike. He turns around and is stunned to find that his bike has disappeared.

A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.