A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.

Working in the yard of his old primary school, a plumber recalls his schooldays and in particular his best friend Jérôme. Poignant memories because Jérôme has died in the French war in Algeria...

Following the death of his twin sister, Gaspard, a young music teacher, brings together his five former best friends in their deserted childhood school, in the middle of July.

Students in Lyon.

A student observes his classmates in the schoolyard.

In order to rekindle their romantic flame, Anne and Vincent have decided to practice a different activity every Sunday, dragging along two single friends who have nothing in common to keep things light and diffuse the tension.

Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.

A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home.

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.