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In the economically ailing north of France, the director of a preschool is passionate about helping the children of unemployed parents. Although he tirelessly messes with authorities, politicians and social workers, he cannot prevent tragic incidents. A touching, cinematic complex reflection on unemployment and the future of a society that is no longer even able to convey the basic forms of interpersonal communication to its children. (filmdienst)
In today´s world economic and social policies cannot cope with real hardships of unemployment and family poverty. Bertrand Tavernier has opened his audiences´ eyes and hearts of children and their families, showing a committed, creative teacher, and a man of poetic search, but also an ordinary „non-heroic“ man, and his anger at the system and regulation-driven bureaucrats as well as his ability to affirm children and transform his professional and private world.