Everyone loves a dreamer, and Paris, and life, and so Stolen Kisses turns to that archetypical Parisian dreamer, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), as he darts around the City of Light looking for love and livelihood. Dishonorably discharged from the army as “temperamentally unfit,” Doinel briskly mows through a succession of odd jobs—TV repairman, hotel night clerk, detective—and discovers he’s terrible at them all but quite good at walking aimlessly around the city and falling in love, either with the kind-hearted violinist Christine (Claude Jade) or with the barely married Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig).