Open My Heart soon reveals that the sisters are in love with each other, a situation that cannot stand, but exactly what prompts the characters' behaviour is rarely clear. Soon after Caterina's belated discovery of her heterosexuality, she is invited into the bedroom with Maria and a client.

Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.

Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months.

Alex is 16, a misfit, a drop-out, a failure. She uses drugs; she cuts herself. She has been sent by her despairing adoptive mother to a farm in northern Germany. At first, Alex hates this remote place and the demanding job of looking after the horses. But under the tutelage of Nina, a 30-something taking a break from city life and her partner, Christine, Alex gradually comes to form a bond with the animals in her charge. Then Kathy arrives at the farm to take a holiday, bringing her own, beautiful horse with her. Alex takes an instant dislike to this privileged newcomer. Slowly, though, the barriers between the two are broken down and Kathy finds herself smitten by the streetwise and energetic Alex. The pair starts horsing around, larking about on the mudflats, until one weekend, when they’re alone at the farm, things spiral out of control.

November Moon, November has fled her local Germany for the general security of Paris. There, she meets and becomes hopelessly enamored with Ferial, a furiously devoted youthful French lady.

Amid a series of life-changing wartime events, they are challenged by their extraordinary circumstances to realize their truest selves and to live - or die - by those choices.

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Zoé et Dan s'aiment. Elles vivent heureuses avec Simon, leur fils de 10 ans, près de Bruges. Même la mère de Zoé a fini par s'accommoder de la situation et vient désormais rendre visite à son petit-fils. L'arrivée de nouveaux voisins va bouleverser ce bonheur. Humilié par Max qui le traite de "fils de pédé de gouines", Simon transforme petit à petit sa honte en haine vis-à-vis de Dan, sans laquelle il aurait eu un vrai papa.

A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.