Julien, ten or eleven years of age, is sent to England to improve his English language skills. There, he has his first real contact with the opposite sex, holds hands with a girl named Janet, who is a year or so older than him, confesses his love. She quickly swoons towards an older French boy named Jean-Pierre, however. Yet, Julien is far from jealous, in fact becomes a bit "infatuated" with the adolescent himself. Things are just fine between the three till their peers begin teasing as well as tormenting Julien and Jean-Pierre, concluding they are "queer" for one another. The later, concerned for his coolness, begins to distance himself, to the misery of the former. By the time Julien returns home to France, he is seriously depressed. Yet, might Jean-Pierre reply to the letter his younger friend sent him, a desperate plea that they remain pals? A nicely done look at the feelings of a preteen boy and the cruelty they can produce. Filmed in the late seventies: full of boys with long hair, polyester and bell-bottom jeans. Check out the "Blue Jeans" Julien swaps Jean-Pierre for a pair of Mickey Mouse socks.

Warning (rated NR): profanity; sexual themes; adult themes.

1978; in French and English with English subtitles; 80 minutes; Note: there is a slight tracking problem in the film's beginning; Gilles Budin, Michel Gibet, Gabriel Cattand, Gerard Croce, Pierre Bonzans, Berangere Dautun, Daina Lavarenne, Fabrice Rouleav.