故事发生在20世纪80年代初期,种族隔离政策在南非掀起了狂风暴雨般的波澜。帕特里克(德瑞克·卢克 Derek Luke 饰)是炼油厂的领班,他和妻子普利西斯结婚多年,共同养育着两个可爱的小女儿,生活过得十分幸福美满。 日益严重的种族歧视让当地的黑人们群情激奋,他们将这种愤怒通过暴力和破坏的手段发泄了出来。炼油厂发生了爆炸,身为负责人的帕特里克被警方逮捕,尽管没有确切的证据证明帕特里克就是主使,但仅仅因为他的肤色,帕特里克在警局里便遭到了非人的待遇,不仅如此,他的妻子也被牵连其中。出狱后的帕特里克对现实感到深深的绝望,于是加入了非洲民族议会党。
Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janet's estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janet's home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game.
The famous writer Bernard travels to a small town nearby a lake to spend vacation out of season in the winter. He check in an old hotel owned by Enrico and his daughter Irma expecting to meet the maid Tilde, from whom he had a crush last time he visited the town. However, he discovers that Tilde has committed suicide and when he meets the local photographer, Bernard learns that she was pregnant. He becomes obsessed to find whether she really committed suicide and to guess what really happened. When Enrico's son Mario and his wife Adriana arrive at the hotel, Bernard has daydreams about the fate of Tilde.
吉约姆·卡内、薇儿拉·贝坦丝([破碎之家])、安东尼·巴容([祈祷])主演,爱德华·贝尔容(Edouard Bergeon)执导[以地球的名义](Au nom de la terre,暂译)本周已在马耶讷开机。故事描绘了一个近40年的家庭传奇。1982年,皮埃尔离开美国,回到马耶讷的家中,买了该地区最美丽的农场。多年来皮埃尔和妻子克莱尔经营着农场业务。但是幸福时光下,这对夫妇还必须与债务和疲惫作斗争。