Fabrice Dubusset

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.

Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

A good-natured kid struggles to earn his mother's love without much success.