Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her. In disgust, his father banishes him forever from the family home. Jean-Baptiste's only solution is to live with Blanche, his mother's sister, in the mountains.

Un matin de novembre 1975, une jeune femme, Ana, rentre chez elle, les joues en feu d’avoir dansé toute la nuit. Étrangement, son mari, Yves, qui l’attendait avec inquiétude, lui demande pardon et quitte la maison. Une petite fille assiste à la séparation depuis l’obscurité du couloir… Au printemps 1991, Cécile, la petite fille du couloir, a maintenant 25 ans ; elle est étudiante dans une école de cinéma et doit réaliser un exercice sur le thème : Filmer vos parents. Cécile les filme séparément et les questionne sur ce qui pour elle est de l’ordre de la légende : leur rencontre. Dans les souvenirs d’Ana et de Yves rien ne coïncide, et pourtant tout coïncide. Évoquer ces instants les remet en contact avec la force du sentiment.

Adapted from Alexeï Konstantinovitch Tolstoï’s La Famille du Vourdalak, the story written by Adrien Beau and Hadrien Bouvier kicks off as follows: "My children," implores old Gorcha before leaving, "wait six days for me. If I haven’t returned by the end of the sixth day, offer a prayer in my memory, for I will have been killed in combat... But if, God forbid, I should return after these six days have passed, I order you to forget that I was your father and to refuse to let me in, no matter what I say or do, for I will be nothing other than an accursed Vourdalak."

Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.