Winner of Caméra d’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and César Award for Best First Feature Film.

The director recounts his youth as a teenage militant Trotskyite in the years leading up to May 1968, and the decade following it, climaxing with the suicide of his boyhood friend, the charismatic student leader Michel Recanati. It is a personal tale, as well as an in-depth look, at the political scene in France during that period.