A troubled young boy Cyril (Thomas Doret) lives in a Children’s
Home after his father decided he was no longer able to cope with caring for
him. Unable to accept this, the boy escapes the Home and goes back to the apartment
that he and his father shared. Finding him gone, the boy continues to run from
the Home’s staff before clattering into a woman in a Doctor’s waiting room
while yelling about his missing bike. Later, the same woman is able to track
down the bike and brings it to the Home and the boy asks if he can stay with
her at weekends. The woman, a hairdresser called Samantha (Cecile de France)
accepts and the boy spends time with her while she attempts to free him from
the anger and rage that keeps getting him into trouble.
I first heard about this film last May when it won the Jury
Prize at Cannes
