Philippe Taccini

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...

大学入学資格試験（バカロレア）の合格率ゼロという不名誉な結果に終わったルイ１４世予備校のルシェ校長は、生徒たちを厳しく指導することを決意。ところが集まったのは、恋人と一緒の予備校通いを喜ぶジュリアン、某国元首の頼りない後継者オレノ、校則無視でやりたい放題のベベルら一筋縄ではいかない連中ばかり。こうして始まる生徒と教師たちの受験勉強を巡る攻防。だが、生徒たちのいたずらは日に日にエスカレートしてゆく。

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.