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It often starts like a dream: there are two of us, we are going to love each other, trust each other and start a family for life. Every year, 250,000 marriages are celebrated in France, 150,000 civil partnerships are signed and 800,000 births are declared. Family happiness that sometimes ends up in pieces in the unromantic setting of the courts. Every year, 120,000 couples appear before the family court judge, and when the judicial machine penetrates private life, the shock is violent. We are at the Bordeaux High Court where the film crew spent several months. Day after day, they followed the work of four magistrates. The JAF as they are called. With them and without them, we will penetrate the intimacy of Caroline and Benoît, Natacha and Mickaël, Etienne and Chantal, or even Régis. According to our magistrates, divorces that go well would be more than a minority. As a result, the judges must arbitrate a real war, which is hard to imagine could have started with a love story. Director: Amal Mogaïzel