It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
Michel Piccoli
as Professor
Pierre Malet
as Roland
Gila von Weitershausen
as Anna
Heinz Weiss
as M. Keller
Richard Lauffen
as Le professeur d'égyptologie
Käte Jaenicke
as La logeuse
