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.

• Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)
• Marianne Productions
• Lea Massari
• Benoît Ferreux
• Marc Winocourt
• Fabien Ferreux
• Daniel Gélin
• Michael Lonsdale
• Ave Ninchi
• Annie Savarin