雅克（皮埃尔·德·兰登尚朴 Pierre de Ladonchamps 饰）是一名风格放荡不羁的作家，奉行着享乐主义的人生信条。一次偶然中，他结识了名为亚瑟（文森·拉寇斯 Vincent Lacoste 饰）的男孩，虽然亚瑟比雅克要年轻很多，但这并不妨碍两人度过了浪漫的一晚。
经过这一晚，单纯的亚瑟深深的爱上了雅克，然而，雅克经历过太多的感情上的挫折了，他根本不相信这个年轻的小伙子对自己是真爱。一天，雅克震惊的得知自己的前男友死于艾滋病，这也就意味着他很可能也被传染上了，病痛的折磨之下，脆弱的雅克卸下心防，同意了亚瑟搬来照顾他的请求。
During a hot summer in Quebec’s countryside, a recently settled couple struggles. Marie (35), a sound artist in lack of inspiration doubts her relationship with her partner. The arrival of Noée (25), a young French traveler who mourns her father, will destabilise the status quo and trouble their neighbour Yan (30), a solitary farmer, by awakening new desires. In Montreal, Eva (15), a teenage Filipina who recently moved to Canada, tries to find new roots in the city. Since her arrival, she suffers from insomnia, often interrupted by strange dreams of her hometown in the Philippines. Jeanne (25) is having trouble finishing her thesis on the work of Marie, the artist in the countryside. As Eva tries to anchor herself, Jeanne plans to leave everything. The Splendour of Life is a sensual film that explores how we relate to each other in a changing world that transcends us - an invitation to live to the fullest.
In this episodic dramatic comedy Francella plays a whopping 16 different characters which “will confront conflicts reflecting the invisible pressure under which we live in a modern-day megalopolis,” said Cohn and Duprat. “The film presents a panorama of our ‘national being’ in a scathing and sarcastic but at the same time reflexive tone. Argentina is a country of immigrants, whose character is a sum of different origins and nationalities: Millions of Europeans came and mixed with Native Argentinians, creating a powerful and singular idiosyncrasy,” they added.
river’s Ed centers on a group of teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip to help a high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
