The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Jean-François Stévenin
as Jean-François Richet, the Schoolteacher

Virginie Thévenet
as Lydie Richet

Chantal Mercier
as Chantal Petit, the Schoolteacher

Tania Torrens
as Nadine Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's mother

Nicole Félix
as Grégory's mother

Philippe Goldman
as Julien Leclou

Bruno de Stabenrath
as Bruno Rouillard

Georges Desmouceaux
as Patrick Desmouceaux

René Barnerias
as Monsieur Desmouceaux, Patrick's father

Francis Devlaeminck
as Monsieur Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's father