On a bus seventeen-year-old Nicolas (Julien Gerin), a long-haired boy who reads Rimbaud and Nietzsche makes a bet that he can have any girl he wants. His choice falls on the intense Christine (Leslie Azzoulai), sixteen, whose parents run a bakery.

Mistaking Nicolas' interest for a great romance, Christine falls hard for him and they make a date for the next day. Young Azzoulai communicates a frightening willpower behind her vulnerable, girl-in-love exterior and Gerin makes a dangerously attractive Nicolas, whose self-destructive streak rubs off on everyone.

Amusing naturalistic dialogue and rapidfire pace hold the attention and the films climax is totally unexpected.

Mazuy depicts a kaleidoscope of teenage emotions pushed to the extreme and, in all their raw passion, never psychologized away Eric Gautier's camera stays close to the characters, except in a few lyrical long shots that punctuate the film.