Daniel Boulanger

A young thug driving a stolen car shoots and kills a police officer who was pursuing him. In Paris, he turns to an American girl, a student and aspiring journalist, who hides him while he tries to raise money to escape to Italy. But as the police pressure increases, so does his desperation.

Now married to Christine and working as a ‘floral artist’ (though he dreams of becoming a novelist), Antoine Doinel becomes a father... But is he mature enough for parenthood, or even marriage? Comedy combines with character critique in Truffaut’s typically ambivalent, compassionate account of the (belated) onset of Doinel’s adulthood.