"Writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau's real-life experiences inspired this powerful film: with poetry and humor it grapples with the passions, crimes and eccentricities of life in a high-rise Parisian suburb. Brisseau explores the loneliness and lack of affection in the lives of two teenagers-innocents in the jungle of high-rises and savage school gangs. This tough portrait of Bruno and Jean-Roger wavers between violence and affection as these 'lost' youths are abandoned to their own street-smarts to survive." -The Museum of Modern Art, New Directors/New Films