Lionel Dray
Det var en gang min mor
I 1963 blir Roland født som den yngste i en stor søskenflokk. Han blir født med klumpfot, noe som gjør det umulig for ham å stå oppreist. Moren hans, Esther, går imot alles råd og lover sønnen sin at han også skal få lære seg å gå som alle andre -og få et fantastisk liv. Fra det øyeblikket vier Esther seg helt og fullt til å oppfylle dette løftet.
Sophie's Misfortunes
From her castle, young Sophie can't resist the temptation of the forbidden and what she loves most of all is to get up to no-good with her cousin Paul. When her parents decide to go to America, Sophie is delighted. A year later, she's back in France with her horrible stepmother, Madame Fichini. But Sophie will be able to count on her two friends, model little girls, and their mother, Madame de Fleurville to escape from her stepmother's clutches.
Of Women and Horses (Sport de filles)
Enraged by the sale of the vaulting horse that she'd been promised as hers to ride, Gracieuse, a talented rider, dumps her job at a stable. She starts again from zero by accepting work as a groom at a dressage stud farm. The owner, Joséphine de Silène, exploits with an iron fist the international renown of a German trainer, Franz Mann, former champion, now cynical and worn out. This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most particularly, her determination to succeed. She pursues her sole obsession: to have horse to call her own that she will take to the top...