1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.
Soldiers discover a body riddled with arrows during military training in the forest.
13-year-old Yùl has come along with his big brother, Dino, to clinch a bad deal with Mike, a thug with a car and a fearsome dog. When the situation starts to turn sour, a weird snake appears by Yùl's side.
Joseph has an intensely close and ambiguous relationship with his sister Marianne. At her going-away party the day before she leaves to go abroad, Joseph is caught between his feelings for his sister and the advances by other suitors.
The daily lives of the inhabitants of "le Mistral", an imaginary neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy families cross paths with the less than rich.