Simon is a teacher who's having doubts. Diane wants to feel like a woman without being an object in the eyes of others. Nicole's daughter isn't talking to her, so Nicole is spending her retirement striving for social justice. Pierre is stuck at home and bored. Jill is a teenager trying to figure out who she is. Hugo sees the world through the lens of his camera.
They are six people with nothing in common except the riverbank they share with an intrigued group of animals. Their wild neighbors observe them as they struggle through life's dramas, large and small... and so very human. "Our Common Shores" is a touching portrait of six extraordinary characters living ordinary lives that, even when tragedy strikes, are full of beauty.