Two broken kids, one revolutionary psychoanalyst, and the war nobody taught them how to survive.
After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew, face the demons that haunt them with the help of Françoise Dolto.
Acting
Josiane Balasko radiates radical empathy without sentimentality.
Writing
Dialogue that respects children's capacity for darkness.
Director
Serge Le Péron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Françoise Dolto revolutionized French parenting through radio shows where she analyzed children's drawings live; this film captures her pre-fame 1950s work with war orphans.
Director Serge Le Péron deliberately cast non-professional children and withheld the full script from them, mirroring Dolto's own methods of radical honesty with young patients.
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