Nineteen-year-old Adrien (Thomas Langmann), on the run, returns to Paris to find his father Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), whom he hasn't seen for years, living with a child-bride, Louise. An escapee from suburbia, sometime pornographer's model and drug addict, Louise (Judith Godrèche) is an agent provocateur in the service of survival. A triangle develops, fraught with parent-child tensions in all their guises, before Louise and Adrien move out, and into the streets of Paris, evoked in all their unsentimental poetry. "Léaud is truly magnificent in his first real middle-aged performance as a fragile, post-May '68 adult whose life has gone on longer than he expected it to." (Kent Jones) "Adrien is a son who is older than his father...a romantic, heroic, timeless, and pure hoodlum (with) the most disturbing and moving face of young French cinema, that of Thomas Langmann." (Laurence Melville)