A young man's first female conquests and the deep love he feels for his father. The story of Luc, a young man from the provinces, who visits Paris to sit his arts and craft college entrance exam. In the street he meets Djemila, with whom he enjoys a brief romance. Returning to his father's house, he begins a relationship with his childhood friend Geneviève, while Djemila longs to see him again. When Luc is accepted by the college he leaves once more for Paris, leaving Geneviève and the baby she is carrying behind him...
Philippe Garrel (Boulogne-Billancourt, France. 1948), direct descendant of the Nouvelle Vague, Robert Bresson and Jean Eustache, debuted as a director in 1967 with Marie pour mémoire, going on to turn out more than twenty-five films, particularly including titles such as Le révélateur (1968), La cicatrice intérieure (1972), Les hautes solitudes (1974), L’enfant secret (1979), Les baisers de secours (1988), Les amants réguliers (2004), winner of the Silver Lion in Venice, La frontière de l’aube (2008) and L’amant d’un jour (Lover for a Day, 2017), the latter two shown in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera. San Sebastian Festival dedicated a retrospective to his complete work in 2007. La sel des larmes competed at Berlin Festival.