Summer 79, holidays, Ocean. Jean, about 10 years old, realizes that his mother and father don't love each other anymore. Suddenly, the family is confronted with death. Jean discovers the ambivalence of life, its violence, human weakness, something like the end of childhood...

Paul, ten, is in love with Wendy, a girl from the village where he spends his holidays. Paul would like to confess his feelings to her, but he doesn't even dare to invite her to dance.