In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
as Bertrand
as Maurice
as Michel
as Romain
as Pierrot
as Marie Lampert
as Martine
as Hélène
as Mme Favart
as Arnolli
as Un fonctionnaire
as Gambier
as Catherine
as Un fonctionnaire
as Danielle
as Simard
as Annette
as L'huissier de l'Elysée
as Le ministre
as Le collègue de Pierre
as Le policier
as Le garçon qui distribue les tracts
as Matthieu
as L'hôtel d'accueil maternité
as L'apprenti présentateur
