Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
Set mostly in the woods in the south of France, a fateful encounter changes the lives of a man and a woman.
It follows Jeanne and Nicolas, a couple of seasoned professional poker players, as they prepare for a high-stakes game at an exclusive private club. Jeanne is eager and driven by the thrill of competition, while Nicolas approaches the evening with quiet apprehension, suggesting deeper emotional undercurrents between them.
