Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother’s foot steps to follow – the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

With nuclear war looming, a military expert in underwater acoustics strives to prove things aren’t as they seem—or sound—using only his ears.

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few…