16-year-old Enzo (Eloy Pohu) is training as a masonry apprentice outside Marseilles; his affluent parents worry about what the future has in store for their rudderless son. Enzo is awoken from his torpor by his conflicted relationship with worksite foreman Vlad (Maksym Slivinskyi), a Ukrainian exile. Through Vlad, Enzo begins to discover something about the world, his entitled place within it, and his sexuality. Robin Campillo’s (120 BPM, 2017) deeply moving film is credited to the late Laurent Cantet (The Class, 2008), who died last year, and with whom Campillo has often worked.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Opening Film, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes International Film Festival 2025

Screening as part of IFI French Film Festival 2025.