This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
Lea Massari
as Clara Chevalier
Benoît Ferreux
as Laurent Chevalier
Marc Winocourt
as Marc Chevalier
Fabien Ferreux
as Thomas Chevalier
Daniel Gélin
as Charles Chevalier
Michael Lonsdale
as Father Henri
Ave Ninchi
as Augusta
Annie Savarin
as Cook
Gila von Weitershausen
as Freda, prostitute
Micheline Bona
as Aunt Claudine
Henri Poirier
as Uncle Léonce
Liliane Sorval
as Fernande
