پدر و مادر «آنتوان» کوچکترین توجهی به او نمیکنند و درگیر کارهای روزمرهی خود میباشند. او که هیچگونه رضایتی از محیط خانواده ندارد با دوست صمیمیاش یعنی «رنه»، به گشت و گذار میپردازد و رفته رفته لحظات جدیدی را تجربه میکند.
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
The school canteen is closed. The new kid must volunteer himself to go on a dangerous journey to the servo, in order to gain admiration, respect, and meat pies.