Summer 1996. Roma is seven years old and what she likes most is to make arrows with Louis, her older brother. Their mother, Florence, doesn't seem in a rush for their in-laws to join them in the Jura for a few days vacation. If we look closely, nor does little Roma. Why do we have a strange feeling of uneasiness hovering in the family home and that, between mistrust and denial, it is part and parcel of this normal vacation?
Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.
Advised by an administration full of good intentions, Latefa and her two children Walid and Ptissam Frenchize their first names at the same time as they acquire French nationality. They face this unique ordeal with humor and lightness, just before the start of the school year.
