A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.

Following a fight that goes wrong, Tigre, Chalouf, and Sainte-Croix, all three students at a vocational high school in Marseille, decide to leave everything behind. "Freedom, freedom, I write your name," they don't know Eluard, but they heard the poem in class and the word freedom touched them. They steal a BMW, a classic move, set off on an adventure, talk a lot and get into a few fights. Chalouf, the tender one, loves Marie, a girl he met by chance in the Old Port. Marie lives in Briançon. No matter! Off they go to Briançon...