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.
as Clara Chevalier
as Laurent Chevalier
as Marc Chevalier
as Thomas Chevalier
as Charles Chevalier
as Father Henri
as Augusta
as Cook
as Freda, prostitute
as Aunt Claudine
as Uncle Léonce
as Fernande
as Hélène
as Daphné
as Man at Bastille Day party
as Hotel receptionist
as Doctor
as Father Superior
as Annie
as Record dealer(uncredited)
