Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

• Lira Films
• Philippe Noiret
• Jean Rochefort
• Jacques Denis
• Yves Afonso
• Julien Bertheau
• Jacques Hilling
• Clotilde Joano
• Andrée Tainsy