Alain Delon produced and stars in this story of “the false innocence of children, of their fundamental aggressiveness, their terrifying capacity for deceit” (Le Monde). Four children, left in the care of their babysitter in a villa on the French Riviera, amuse themselves for the most part by watching violent shows on television, but take occasional excursions to the sea. One day, on a lark, they push their sleeping babysitter into the water. Unable to swim, she drowns. The children manage to ward off questions as to the sitter's whereabouts until the appearance of a menacing stranger (Delon), who, it turns out, witnessed the drowning. He begins to terrorize the kids, who respond in kind. It seems they have learned a great deal from television (“The film industry...may be trying to get back at video in this pic”--Variety). (JB)