Bruno Todeschini

In a Paris suburb nicknamed Little Jerusalem, a family of Sephardic Orthodox immigrants shares a low-income apartment. Beautiful, teenaged Laura distances herself from her family's religion and her own burgeoning desire by devoting every waking moment to intellectual discipline and secular philosophy. Mathilde, Laura's married older sister, worries that strict observance of the Torah's marital codes has driven her husband Ariel into the bed of another....

After the death of her soul mate, Nathalie loses interest in life, and finds love again in the most unexpected place.

When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of French settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They are escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.