A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.

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Cast

Anouk Grinberg

Victorine

Myriam Boyer

La mère / The mother

Olivier Martinez

Petit Paul

Marcello Mastroianni

Le père / The father

Jean-Michel Noirey

Maurice Le Garrec

Jean-Pierre Marielle

L'homme seul / The lonely man

Claude Brasseur

L'enfoiré / The dumb

Denise Chalem

l'institutrice

Éva Darlan

Jeannine

Patrick Bouchitey

Marcel, le barman

Charles Schneider

le sergent Boigny

Stéphane Slima

Rafik