The House at Cournonterral, involves two families, one Russian, the other French, who are holiday neighbours for two weeks in the South of France. In Siegfried, two people, recovering from everyday life at a retreat in the high Pennines, come together to forge something special - while with Love in Trieste, Gustave Haan, a famous composer, travels to Trieste with his new love, to try and regain his creative powers.