In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under occupation. Barricades are erected. Paving slabs are launched. Words give way to actions. This is the confrontation. These images bear witness to the men and women who, in their indignancy, march towards their revolution. 50 years ago, as part of our ARC collective, we filmed the uprising of May and June 1968. Out of this material and scenes borrowed from our other filmmaker friends, we created this film.

A white soldier brings a creature to life. The creature, bound with its arms spread out like a cross, becomes the victim of unbearable torment.

The first film broadcast around May 1968, conceived in the first half of May, "Ce n'est qu'un début" (This is only the beginning) places the first "night of the barricades" in the context of the "wildcat" strikes in Caen and Redon and the student protests in Nanterre.

Spontaneous expression in '68. The beautiful month of May when students were remaking the world and attempting to engage in dialogue with workers.

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.