Martin Loeb

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

少女ラウラは毎夏、避暑ですごす山村で一人の少年を遊び友達に、王と王妃を気取るのだが、その年は少年の様子が違う。明らかに性的好奇の目が注がれ、態度も横暴。悩む少女に少年は、森の外れの別荘に暮らす少女シルヴィアを仲間に誘うよう命令する。そして、その娘が王女として君臨。美しいカップルを前に奴隷のように屈従するしかないラウラ。しかし、シルヴィアの高慢さは少年にも手に負えないものだった…。

A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school, but his mother cannot afford it, so she sends him to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel wiles away his time in the shop, and learns about girls from the other boys in town. When he returns to visit his grandmother next year, it is obvious that he has grown up faster than his old friends.