女叠码仔梅晓鸥（白百何饰）历尽沧桑，在妈阁（澳门）这座赌城中与来历迥异的赌徒打交道，有地产商段凯文（吴刚饰）、有艺术家史奇澜（黄觉饰），也有来自不同阶级的政商人员，连早已堕落低谷的前夫卢晋桐（耿乐饰）都重新卷入她的人生。这些人入赌场就搏杀，出赌场就赖账，女叠码仔过的就是放债和讨债的生活。
　　赌博让人迷失本性，叠码仔与赌徒周旋，也等于与魔鬼打交道，一时假仁假义，一时恩断情绝，赌至终局，谁能寻回本性，谁能鸿运当头？

　　亚历山大（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）和妻子玛丽（奥拉利亚·佩蒂特 Aurélia Petit 饰）结婚多年，一家人在里昂定居，小小的四口之家充满了幸福的欢声笑语。然而，亚历山大有着一段灰暗的过去，他在当童子军期间，曾经被他深深信赖的神父所猥亵。这段遭遇给亚历山大的精神带来了很大的打击，但他只能选择将这段记忆深深的封印在心底。
　　一次偶然中，亚历山大震惊的得知，当年猥亵他的神父现在仍然和孩子们有着接触，这也就意味着，他依然有可能威胁到那些孩子们的人身安全。于是，亚历山大和同他一样也是受害者的弗朗索瓦（丹尼斯·门诺切特 Denis Menochet 饰）和伊曼纽尔（斯万·阿劳德 Swann Arlaud 饰）决定联手站出来，揭开神父伪善的假面。

　　Filled with expectations, Etienne moves to Paris from Lyon to study film directing at the Sorbonne. He leaves behind his girlfriend Lucie, promising to call her regularly via Skype. On his course he meets Jean-Noël and Mathias, they too have come to the metropolis from smaller cities and share his passion for cinema. Together they discuss the cinematic canon, read texts by Flaubert and Pasolini, and listen to Bach and Mahler. Jean-Noël proves to be an agreeable friend who tries to strengthen Etienne’s fragile self-confidence; Mathias, on the other hand, often comes across as stern, aloof and mysterious. Fond of arguing, he has a habit of disappearing for weeks on end without the others knowing where he is. Nobody gets to see his student film, either. Etienne is particularly crestfallen when he discovers by chance that Mathias shares a secret with Annabelle, an idealistic young woman who lives in Etienne’s shared flat and with whom he is secretly in love. Jean Paul Civeyrac’s tenderly melancholic black-and-white study of these young people’s encounter with art and life is at the same time a declaration of love for classic cinema and the city of Paris.