Fabrice Dubusset

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.

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.