Massimo Brancatelli

A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a helping hand?

Bank manager Frank and writer Patrizia meet by coincidence again and again at the airport. They commute between Dusseldorf and Paris, but behind their travels are two fateful stories. Frank wants to complete the business of his life, Patrizia visits her lover, who is in a coma since a car accident. For both life comes out of joint and they each suffer heavy losses. What connects them is the search for hold, a listener, the need to be needed and the hope that there is a beginning in each end.

The story of Johnny Chicago's brother, Ray, and his friend Chuck Moreno, both petty criminals. The latter wants to take the ashes of Johnny, who was fatally wounded by the police after a bank heist, to Chicago.

1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move the house, it won't be long before he sees in Philippe, his new neighbor, an ideal Prince Charming for his mother.

Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his wild son...