作家米娅与单身父亲埃米尔相爱后，两人为了要孩子接受了生育治疗，他们的幸福生活也因此受到了考验。

法蒂玛（索里娅·泽鲁阿尔 Soria Zeroual 饰）是一位勇敢的单身母亲，带着两个女儿苏阿德（Kenza Noah Aïche 饰）和娜斯蕾（琪塔·昂赫 Zita Hanrot 饰）生活在热闹繁华的大都市巴黎，母女三人过着相依为命的生活。苏阿德正值青春期，母亲的很多举动无法获得她的理解，母女两人之间的关系十分淡漠。娜斯蕾考上了医学院，她是母亲心中的骄傲，但同时，昂贵的学费也让法蒂玛感到肩上的负担越发沉重。                                                                      　　法蒂玛不会说法文，而她的两个女儿在法国长大，不愿意学习阿拉伯语，因为语言的不通，两代人之间的隔阂越来越深。在一场意外中，法蒂玛从楼梯上摔了下来必须卧床数月，在期间，她开始用阿拉伯语给女儿们写信。

　　Marie and Michelle are escaping from a lunatic asylum. Michelle is a tough girl who knows how to survive on the road, but the extremely shy Marie desperately clings to her until Michelle gives in and promises help. The two get into a lot of trouble which puts their friendship to a test.　　Rollin's lost movie, and lost for a good reason, as the director told in several interviews (one on the British DVD, for example): it was simply so poor no distributor bought it. The director blames this mostly on the scriptwriter. The producer had hired someone to keep the director from continuing with his usual vampire mystery stuff, and that kind of co-operation against each other couldn't work. However, "The Escapees" has enough magic moments to be worth watching. Especially when people stop talking such as in the ending, or when Marie skates on the ice, imagining she is admired by a crowd, but only Michelle is secretly watching her.