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.
Elenco: Lea Massari , Benoît Ferreux , Daniel Gélin , Michael Lonsdale , Ave Ninchi , Gila von Weitershausen , Fabien Ferreux , Marc Winocourt , Micheline Bona , Henri Poirier , Liliane Sorval , René Bouloc , Jacques Gheusi , Annie Savarin , Jacques Sereys , Yvon Lec , Michel Charrel , Bernadette Robert .