The feature film debut of Franco Lolli, following several short films to have won awards at several festivals, was presented in the Critics' Week at Cannes. Ten year-old Eric finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to help and invites them both to the country to spend Christmas with her and her family. However, she fails to foresee all the consequences of taking the child under her wing.
Franco Lolli is Colombian. He studied at the French film school, La Fémis. Before Gente de bien, presented at the Critics' Week in Cannes, he directed the short films Como todo el mundo (Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand 2008) and Rodri (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2012).