Bernard Tronczak

In a town in northern France, teenagers sitting for the baccalaureate await the fateful date with anxiety tempered with indifference. The past year has been the scene of their conflicts with adults and teachers alike who consider the exam as the highway to employment. The disillusioned teenagers see it more as the dead-end street to unemployment.

Fed up with her comfortable but dull bourgeois life, a young accountant, Nelly (Isabelle Huppert), leaves her husband for unemployed, petty criminal, Loulou (Gérard Depardieu).