The adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, collected by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician.

L'île des Lucioles. Dix invités se pressent pour aller découvrir cette magnifique maison, perchée sur un rocher, au large des côtes anglaises. Mais personne n'est là pour les recevoir. Pas de trace de ce mystérieux Monsieur Lenny, propriétaire de l'île. Mais une voix, une voix sourde et désincarnée, qui accuse, tour à tour, chacun des convives... 

Odette is 8 years old, she likes to paint and laugh. Of course, she trusts adults, why would she be afraid of her parent’s friend? Why would she refuse to play “little tickles” with him?

Summer 1942. Over German-occupied France, a Royal Air Force bomber becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. Three of the crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, a puppet show operator, Juliette, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort.