This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
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Lea Massari as Clara Chevalier
Benoît Ferreux as Laurent Chevalier
Marc Winocourt as Marc Chevalier
Fabien Ferreux as Thomas Chevalier
Daniel Gélin as Charles Chevalier
Michael Lonsdale as Father Henri
Ave Ninchi as Augusta
Annie Savarin as Cook
Gila von Weitershausen as Freda, prostitute
Micheline Bona as Aunt Claudine
Henri Poirier as Uncle Léonce
Liliane Sorval as Fernande
Jacqueline Chauvaud as Hélène
Corinne Kersten as Daphné
René Bouloc as Man at Bastille Day party
Jacques Gheusi as Hotel receptionist
Jacques Sereys as Doctor
Yvon Lec as Father Superior
Bernadette Robert as Annie
Michel Charrel as Record dealer(uncredited)
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